English Quotes

“Well begun is half done.” Aristotle

“The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.” Victor Hugo

“The plain fact is that I am not a fair man and don't want to hear both sides.” Henry Louis Mencken

“In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.” Andy Warhol

“What is once well done is done forever.” Henry David Thoreau

“He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.” Albert Einstein

“We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America.” James Douglas Morrison

“You are not a human being in search of spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Oscar Wilde

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Alexander Pope

“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.” Laozi

“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.” Michel de Montaigne

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” Laozi

“Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.” Larry Flynt

“The only real laughter comes from despair.” Groucho Marx

“We dream of the day when no one knows who's President, because no one bothered to vote.” John Cage

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare

“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” Confucius

“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.” Francois Sagan

“Never compromise yourself it is all you got.” Janis Joplin

“Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.” Pier Paolo Pasolini

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” Aristotle

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” Albert Einstein

“The miserable have no other medicine but hope.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Thought can make you; thought can break you.” Swami Sukhabodhananda

“Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater; those that employ the resources of cinematography.” Robert Bresson

“Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage.” Benjamin Franklin

“Straight Road do not make Skilful Drivers” Paulo Coelho

“Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.” Heywood Broun

“Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'” Clive Staples Lewis

“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.” Philip Guedalla

“Machine's have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?” Andy Warhol

“I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.” John Atkinson

“The movies are so rarely great art, that if we can't appreciate great trash, there is little reason for us to go.” Pauline Kael

“Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.” Jean Sibelius

“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.” Laozi

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.” Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

“The flesh is the surface of the unknown.” Victor Hugo

“With the idea of defilement we enter the realm of terror.” Paul Ricoeur

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” Aristotle

“The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“... What good are dreams if they come true?” Frederick Exley

“Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.” Albert Einstein

“Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.” Erich Fromm

“People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.” Jack Nicholson

“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.” Charles Kettering

“We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang seperately.” Benjamin Franklin

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” Gore Vidal

“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.” Jo Godwin

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.” Ernest Hemingway

“If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” Richard Tirendi

“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” Erica Jong

“Oh, that. I just do that for the extra money, and to satisfy my male need to kill and win.” Charlie Sheen

“It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.” George Bernard Shaw

“When liberty returns, I will return.” Victor Hugo

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin

“We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.” Andrew A. Rooney

“The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.” Isadora Duncan

“You have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.” Arianna Huffington

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.” Joel Barker

“There's nothing else in life but youth and love unending tenderness and quiet happiness.” Hjalmar Soderberg

“Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.” William James

“Successful organizations make habits of things others don't like to do, or don't find time to do.” Don House

“When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.” Laozi

“I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.” Georges Duhamel

“In the eyes of a child you will see...the world as it should be.” Unknown

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” Marie Curie

“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.” George Orson Welles

“Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.” Karsh of Ottawa

“Success has no taste or smell. And when you get used to it, it's as if it never existed.” Marisa Paredes

“Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.” Nicholas Negroponte

“Conform and be dull.” J. Frank Doble

“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” Mohammad Ali

“Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.” Bertrand Russell

“Anytime there's a big sporting event, go to either the winning or losing town; there'll be riots in both of time. Riots are fun.” Hunter S. Thompson

“The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.” Henry Havelock Ellis

“Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?” Trey Parker

“Aim high, dream big, fly far.” Unknown

“I highly recommend worrying. It's much more effective than dieting.” William Powell

“Think of me as Chomsky with dick jokes.” Bill Hicks

“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.” William Blake

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.” Thomas Alva Edison

“The director is simply the audience. . . . His job is to preside over accidents.” George Orson Welles

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” George Washington

“A friend to all is a friend to none.” Aristotle

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss

“A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.” Unknown

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” Abraham Lincoln

“Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Dreaming isn't enough to see concrete achievements realized; talent isn't enough. The work u do is the main way to reach for ur dreams. So act!” Kristina Bazan

“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.” Sunzi

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up & look for the circumstances they want. If they can't find them, make them.” George Bernard Shaw

“To fight & conquer in all our battles is not top excellence; top excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance w/o fighting.” Sunzi

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“You can't be afraid to fail because that's when you learn.” Michael Dell

“We need to be continuously striving to go beyond our comfort zones if we want to be successful.” Heidi Grant Halvorson

“Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” Unknown

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker

“Most people would rather give than get affection.” Aristotle