Famous Quotes By Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

1. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
2. A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
3. A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
4. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
5. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
6. At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
7. Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
8. Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
9. Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
10. Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
11. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
12. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilati
13. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
14. I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
15. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
16. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
17. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
18. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
19. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
20. If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
21. It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
22. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
23. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
24. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
25. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
26. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
27. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
28. One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
29. One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
30. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
31. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
32. Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
33. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
34. Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
35. Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
36. Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
37. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
38. That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
39. The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
40. The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
41. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
42. The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
43. The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
44. The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
45. The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
46. The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
47. The time is always right to do what is right.
48. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
49. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
50. There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
51. War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
52. We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
53. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
54. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
55. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
56. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
57. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
58. We must use time creatively.
59. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
60. Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Famous Quotes By John Ruskin

 

1. A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.
2. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
3. All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
4. All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
5. All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
6. An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
7. Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
8. Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
9. Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
10. Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
11. Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
12. Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
13. Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
14. Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
15. Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
16. Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
17. Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
18. He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
19. How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
20. I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
21. In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
22. In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
23. It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
24. It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
25. It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
26. Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
27. Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
28. Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.
29. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
30. Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
31. Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
32. Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
33. No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
34. No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
35. No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
36. No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
37. No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
38. No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
39. Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
40. Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
41. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
42. The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
43. The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
44. The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
45. The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
46. The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
47. The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
48. The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
49. The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
50. The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
51. The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
52. There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
53. There is no wealth but life.
54. To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
55. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
56. We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
57. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
58. Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
59. You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
60. You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Famous Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton

 

1. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
2. A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
3. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
4. A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
5. All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
6. All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
7. All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
8. Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
9. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
10. Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
11. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
12. Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
13. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
14. Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
15. Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
16. Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
17. Half a truth is better than no politics.
18. Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
19. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
20. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
21. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
22. I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
23. I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
24. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
25. If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
26. In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
27. It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
28. It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
29. Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
30. Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.
31. Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
32. Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
33. Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
34. Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
35. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
36. Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
37. Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
38. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
39. No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
40. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
41. One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
42. People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
43. Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
44. Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
45. The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
46. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
47. The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
48. The only defensible war is a war of defense.
49. The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
50. The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
51. The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
52. The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
53. The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
54. The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
55. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
56. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
57. The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
58. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
59. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
60. Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
61. To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
62. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
63. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
64. True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
65. We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
66. We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
67. What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
68. When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
69. When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
70. White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
71. Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
72. Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
73. Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Famous Quotes By Ambrose Bierce

 

1. A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
2. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
3. Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
4. Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
5. Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
6. Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
7. Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
8. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
9. Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
10. Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
11. Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
12. Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
13. Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
14. Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
15. Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
16. Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
17. Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
18. Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
19. Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
20. Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
21. Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
22. Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
23. Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
24. Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
25. Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
26. Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
27. Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
28. Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
29. Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
30. Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
31. Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
32. Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
33. Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
34. History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
35. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
36. Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
37. Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
38. It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
39. Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
40. Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
41. Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
42. Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
43. Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
44. Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
45. Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
46. Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
47. Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
48. Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
49. Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
50. Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
51. Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
52. Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
53. Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
54. Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
55. Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
56. Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
57. Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
58. Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
59. Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
60. Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
61. Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
62. Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
63. Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
64. Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
65. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
66. Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
67. Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
68. Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
69. The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
70. The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
71. The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
72. The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
73. To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
74. To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
75. Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
76. War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
77. We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
78. What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
79. Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
80. Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
81. Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Famous Quotes By Albert Camus

 

1. A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
2. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
3. A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
4. A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
5. After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
6. Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
7. Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
8. All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
9. All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
10. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
11. As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
12. Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
13. Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
14. Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.
15. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
16. By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
17. Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
18. Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
19. Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
20. For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
21. Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
22. He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
23. How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
24. I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
25. I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
26. In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
27. It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
28. It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
29. It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
30. Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
31. Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
32. Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
33. Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
34. Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
35. Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
36. Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
37. Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
38. Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
39. The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
40. The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
41. The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
42. The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
43. The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
44. The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
45. The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
46. There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
47. There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
48. Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
49. Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
50. To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
51. To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
52. To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
53. To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
54. To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
55. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
56. Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
57. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
58. We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
59. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
60. We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
61. We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
62. We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
63. When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
64. Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
65. Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
66. Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
67. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
68. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
69. Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Famous Quotes By Thomas Carlyle

 

1. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
2. A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
3. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
4. All great peoples are conservative.
5. Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
6. Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
7. Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
8. Endurance is patience concentrated.
9. Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
10. Every noble work is at first impossible.
11. For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
12. For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
13. Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
14. He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
15. History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
16. History, a distillation of rumour.
17. Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
18. I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
19. I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
20. I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
21. If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
22. If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
23. If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
24. Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
25. In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
26. In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
27. It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
28. I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
29. Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
30. Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
31. Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
32. Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
33. No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
34. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
35. None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
36. Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
37. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
38. Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
39. Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
40. Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
41. Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
42. Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
43. Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
44. Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
45. Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
46. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
47. The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
48. The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
49. The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
50. The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
51. The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
52. The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
53. The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
54. The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
55. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
56. There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
57. There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
58. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
59. To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
60. To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
61. True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
62. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
63. War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
64. What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
65. What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
66. Wonder is the basis of worship.
67. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
68. Work alone is noble.

Famous Quotes By Francis Bacon

 

1. A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
2. A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
3. A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
4. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
5. Acorns were good until bread was found.
6. Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
7. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
8. Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
9. Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
10. But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
11. By indignities men come to dignities.
12. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
13. Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
14. Friends are thieves of time.
15. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
16. God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
17. God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
18. God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
19. God's first creature, which was light.
20. He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
21. He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
22. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
23. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
24. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
25. I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
26. I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
27. If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
28. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
29. It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
30. It is impossible to love and to be wise.
31. Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
32. Knowledge is power.
33. Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
34. Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
35. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
36. Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
37. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
38. Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
39. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
40. Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
41. Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
42. People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
43. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
44. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
45. Science is but an image of the truth.
46. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
47. Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
48. Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
49. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
50. The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
51. The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
52. The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
53. The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
54. The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
55. The worst men often give the best advice.
56. There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
57. There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
58. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
59. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
60. Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
61. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
62. Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
63. Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
64. Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
65. Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
66. Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
67. We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
68. What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
69. When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
70. Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
71. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
72. Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
73. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
74. Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Famous Quotes By Samuel Butler

 

1. A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
2. A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
3. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
4. A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
5. A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
6. A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
7. A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
8. All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
9. All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
10. All truth is not to be told at all times.
11. An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
12. And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
13. Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
14. Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.
15. Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
16. Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
17. Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
18. Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
19. For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
20. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
21. From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
22. God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
23. God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
24. God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
25. God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
26. He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
27. Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
28. If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
29. If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
30. If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
31. In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
32. It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
33. It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
34. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
35. Let every man be true and every god a liar.
36. Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
37. Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
38. Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
39. Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
40. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
41. Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
42. Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
43. Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
44. Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
45. Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
46. Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
47. Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
48. Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
49. People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
50. Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
51. Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
52. Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
53. The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
54. The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
55. The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
56. The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
57. The history of art is the history of revivals.
58. The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
59. The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
60. The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
61. The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
62. The want of money is the root of all evil.
63. The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
64. The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
65. Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
66. There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
67. There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
68. They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
69. Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
70. Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
71. To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
72. To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
73. To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
74. Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
75. We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
76. We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
77. What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
78. Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
79. Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
80. Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
81. You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Famous Quotes By Khalil Gibran

 

1. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
2. Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
3. And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
4. Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
5. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
6. But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
7. Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
8. Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
9. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
10. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
11. Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
12. Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
13. Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
14. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
15. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
16. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
17. Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
18. I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
19. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
20. I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
21. I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
22. I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
23. If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
24. If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
25. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
26. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
27. In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
28. Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
29. Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
30. Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
31. Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
32. Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
33. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
34. Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
35. Love is trembling happiness.
36. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
37. Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
38. Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
39. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
40. March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
41. No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
42. Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
43. Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
44. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
45. Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
46. Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
47. Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
48. Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
49. Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
50. Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
51. The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
52. The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
53. The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
54. The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
55. Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
56. To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
57. Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
58. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
59. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
60. When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
61. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
62. When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
63. Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
64. Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
65. Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
66. Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
67. Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
68. Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
69. Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
70. Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
71. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Famous Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

 

1. A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
2. A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
3. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
4. A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
5. A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
6. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
7. An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
8. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.
9. Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
10. Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
11. Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
12. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
13. Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
14. Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
15. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
16. For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
17. Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
18. Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
19. Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
20. I am alone I am always alone no matter what.
21. I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
22. I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
23. I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
24. I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
25. I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
26. I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
27. I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
28. I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
29. I love a natural look in pictures.
30. I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.
31. I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
32. I read poetry to save time.
33. I restore myself when I'm alone.
34. I think I have always had a little humor.
35. I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
36. I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
37. I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
38. I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
39. If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
40. If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
41. If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
42. If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
43. I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
44. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
45. It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
46. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
47. I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
48. I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
49. I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
50. Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
51. Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
52. Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
53. My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.
54. My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.
55. One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
56. Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
57. Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
58. Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
59. Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
60. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
61. Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
62. Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
63. The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
64. The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
65. The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
66. The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
67. There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
68. There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
69. What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
70. What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
71. What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
72. When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
73. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Famous Quotes By Samuel Johnson

 

1. A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
2. A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
3. A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
4. All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
5. All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
6. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
7. Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
8. Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
9. Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
10. Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
11. Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
12. Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
13. Exercise is labor without weariness.
14. Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
15. Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
16. Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
17. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
18. He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
19. He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
20. He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
21. I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
22. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
23. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
24. If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
25. In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
26. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
27. It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
28. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
29. It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
30. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
31. Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
32. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
33. Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
34. Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
35. Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
36. Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
37. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
38. Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
39. Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
40. Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
41. Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
42. No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
43. No man was ever great by imitation.
44. No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
45. No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
46. Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
47. Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
48. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
49. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
50. Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
51. Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
52. Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
53. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
54. Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
55. Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
56. Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
57. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
58. The future is purchased by the present.
59. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
60. The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
61. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
62. The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
63. The true art of memory is the art of attention.
64. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
65. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
66. The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
67. There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
68. There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
69. There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
70. There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
71. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
72. There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
73. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
74. To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
75. To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
76. Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
77. We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
78. Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
79. What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
80. You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
81. You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
82. Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Famous Quotes By H. L. Mencken

 

1. A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
2. A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
3. A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
4. A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
5. A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
6. Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
7. All government, of course, is against liberty.
8. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
9. Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
10. Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
11. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
12. Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
13. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
14. Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
15. Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
16. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
17. For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
18. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
19. Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
20. Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
21. Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.
22. I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
23. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
24. I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
25. If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
26. Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
27. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
28. In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
29. It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
30. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
31. It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
32. It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
33. It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
34. Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
35. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
36. Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
37. Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
38. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
39. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
40. Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
41. Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.
42. No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
43. Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
44. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
45. Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
46. Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
47. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
48. Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
49. The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
50. The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
51. The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
52. The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
53. The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
54. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
55. The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
56. The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
57. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
58. The worst government is often 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.
59. There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
60. There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
61. Time stays, we go.
62. To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
63. To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
64. War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
65. We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
66. We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
67. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
68. What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
69. When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
70. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
71. Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
72. Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
73. Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.