Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Famous Quotes

Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.
Topic: Thrushes
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Topic: Modesty
Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
Topic: Learning
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Topic: Agitation
Author: Robert Peel
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
Topic: Wisdom
The "why" is plain as way to parish church. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Victory is a thing of the will.
Topic: Victory
There is the story of a pastor who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: "I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it's still out there in your pockets.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
Topic: Eating
Author: Ben Jonson
The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
Author: Sydney Smith
One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Topic: Quick
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Topic: Literary
Author: Anais Nin
Eat your Cake and have it, too.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.
Topic: Influence
Author: John Dryden
The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog.
Topic: Dogs
Author: Joussenel
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Author: Oscar Wilde
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Topic: Attitude
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
Topic: Nature