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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Topic: Weakness
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
Topic: Success
The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O."
Topic: Midges
I married beneath me. All women do.
Author: Cher
The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
Topic: Future
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
Author: H L Mencken
Just do what you do best.
Topic: Advice
Author: Red Auerbach
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
Author: John Updike
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.
Author: H L Mencken
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
Author: E L Doctorow
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Topic: Anger
I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.
Topic: Sports
On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes, He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.
Topic: Ambition
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
Topic: Speech
I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.
Topic: Education
Author: Alec Bourne
Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
Topic: Plagiarism
Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency.
Topic: Competency
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did.".
Author: Jack Handy
What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings-- This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.
Topic: Christmas