Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author
So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
Don Marquis Topic: Luck
Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Oliver Herford Topic: Tact
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
Jules Renard Topic: Compliment
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Joseph Conrad Topic: Existence
Church is the only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
William Temple Topic: Cliches
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
Nancy Mitford Topic: Youth
Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.
Theodore Parker Topic: Worship
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
Ernest Benn Topic: Perspective
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Gloria Vanderbilt Topic: Humor
Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn. http://www.sathyasai.org.
Sai Baba Topic: Desire
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
Eric Hoffer Topic: Perspective
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