Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Famous Quotes

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
With faces like dead lovers who died true.
Topic: Faces
The better part of statesmanship might be to know clearly and precisely what not to do.
Author: Eric Hoffer
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Topic: Perfection
Author: Dante
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
Topic: Respect
The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
Topic: Poetry
Author: Lord Byron
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.
Topic: Revolution
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Topic: Losing
If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
God loves everyone, but probably prefers "fruit of the Spirit" over "religious nuts!".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
Author: David Bailey
I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail! Pierce with thy trill the dark, Like a glittering music-spark, When the earth grows pale and dumb."
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Topic: Experience
Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.
Topic: Success
Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gifts are every evening new, And morning mercies from above Gently distill like early dew. Thou spread'st the curtains of the night, Great guardian of my sleeping hours; Thy sov'reign word restores the light, And quickens all my drowsy powers. I yield my powers to Thy command, To Thee I consecrate my days; Perpetual blessings from Thine hand Demand perpetual songs of praise.
Author: Isaac Watts
Absence is to love as wind is to fire, it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
If you judge people, you will have no time to love them.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Topic: Focus
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.