Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Blame is safer than praise.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Culture, with us, ends in headache.

Cunning is strength withheld.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands; To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all; I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I too late Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Go put your creed into your deed, Not speak with double tongue.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Men are what their mothers made them.

It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.