Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Famous Quotes

It is difficult not to write satire.
Topic: Satire
Author: Juvenal
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Topic: Sorrow
Author: Jean Ingelow
Don't tell God how big your problems are...tell your problems how big your God is.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
I don't believe in God, in Spain all 22 players cross themselves, if it works the game is always going to be a tie.
Topic: Soccer
The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph.
Topic: Faith
The charm dissolves apace; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Topic: Darkness
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Author: Leo Burnett
Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.
Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
Topic: Gratitude
Author: Seneca
Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.
Topic: Stars
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
Author: Steve Brown
No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
Topic: Thought
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Topic: Grace
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Topic: Cats
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
Topic: Joy
...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.
Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
Topic: Pleasure
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
Topic: Death