Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author
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Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.
Topic: Hell
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.
Topic: Accident
Author: William Shakespeare
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Topic: Computers
Author: Janet Reno
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Topic: Freedom of the Press
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: Stephan Grellet
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Topic: Cheerfulness
Author: Helen Keller
Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. .
Topic: Courage
Author: Helen Blavatsky
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
Topic: Equality
Author: William Faulkner
A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.
Topic: Sympathy
Author: Anonymous
In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.
Topic: Paradise
Author: George Crabbe
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
Topic: History
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cease not to learn until thou cease to live; Think that day lost wherein thou draw'st no letter, To make thyself learneder, wiser, better.
Topic: Day
Author: Guy De Faur Lord Of Pibrac
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
Topic: Adaptability
Author: Ernest Bramah
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Dwight D Eisenhower
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Topic: Past
Author: Charles Kingsley
He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!
Topic: Inns
Author: Pietro Aretino
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
Topic: Discontent
Author: James Thomson
I am sure care 's an enemy to life. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Still people are dangerous.
Topic: Behavior
Author: Jean De La Fontaine
All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.
Topic: Men
Author: Cynthia Heimel