English Quotes

“No where to go, and all day to get there.” John A. Simone Sr.

“Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.” Victor Hugo

“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better” William Shakespeare

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.” Henry B. Adams

“It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.” Joseph Ross

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” Victor Hugo

“The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.” Aristotle

“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.” Fernando Flores

“Entrepreneurship is simply 'personal accountability'. You have to drive your career and not wait for someone else to do it for you.” Dan Schawbel

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's a scary time ... this is how the Roman Empire fell. We're dancing as Rome burns.” Julianne Moore

“Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.” Anonymous

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” Henri Matisse

“Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.” Vincent van Gogh

“You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life.” Zig Ziglar

“Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Laozi

“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.” Ambrose Bierce

“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” Voltaire

“My God, My God ... (why hast Thou forsaken me?) ... That bestial giggling ....” Soren Kierkegaard

“'Politics' is made up of two words. 'Poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are bloodsucking insects.” Gore Vidal

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” Dr. Johnson

“Houseless, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.” Ambrose Bierce

“People do not lack strength; they lack will.” Victor Hugo

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” Sunzi

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” Henry David Thoreau

“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.” Johnny Depp

“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23... and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.” Steve Jobs

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” Unknown

“Wit is educated insolence.” Aristotle

“If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her.” Arthur Lotti

“College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world.” William Thomas

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” Aristotle

“We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.” Erich Maria Remarque

“There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.” David Gibbs

“My country is not a country, it is the winter.” Gilles Vigneault

“If they called me up, I would puke.” Sammy Hagar

“If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.” Coleman Hawkins

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” Aristotle

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” Walt Whitman

“Le sens commun n'est pas si commun. [Common sense is not so common.]” Voltaire

“Everybody makes me out to be some kind of macho pig, humping women in the gutter. I do, but I put a pillow under them first.” James Caan

“My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better.” Steve Jobs

“When you are down and out something always turns up--and it is usually the noses of your friends.” George Orson Welles

“To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” David Viscott

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.” Margaret Atwood

“I advice you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying you annuities.” Voltaire

“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.” Laozi

“Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.” Ogden Nash

“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” Bertrand Russell

“When I say I, I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.” Ugo Betti

“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” William Shakespeare

“All quotation is taken out of context.” British politician and writer Enoch Powell

“I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.” Mark Zuckerberg

“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.” Laozi

“In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.” George Bernard Shaw

“'I'm youth, I'm joy,' Peter answered at a venture, 'I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.'” Sir James Matthew Barrie

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” Michelangelo Buonarroti

“The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones.” Adolf Hitler

“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.” Albert Einstein

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” Mae West

“If you're not having doubt, you're not pushing the boundaries far enough.” Tony Fadell

“Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one.” W. Somerset Maugham

“Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist.” John A. Simone Jr.

“I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.” Unknown

“No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.” Billie Holiday

“I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed.” Vladimir Chaloupka

“Success is not to be gauged by the position one has gained in life but by the obstacles one has endured.” Neil Patel

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” Kurt Cobain

“I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.” John Cage

“Paris Webcams don't move. Therefore wrong impression.” Hans-Jurgen Syberberg

“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.” William Shakespeare

“The minute you're satisfied with where you are, you aren't there anymore.” Tony Gwynn

“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” James Joyce

“He who hath many friends hath none.” Aristotle

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” Jerry Seinfeld

“We're all traveling through time together every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.” About Time

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” Aristotle

“In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur

“The entrepreneurial spirit is about questioning the status quo & making things better in everything you do.” Unknown

“The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.” John Steinbeck

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain

“What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts.” Henry David Thoreau

“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.” Bertrand Russell

“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.” Victor Hugo

“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.” Mark Twain

“A war between Europeans is a civil war.” Victor Hugo

“I'm 60 percent virgin and 40 percent whore. I've not sold out that much, and I've made my own mistakes.” Rod Steiger

“Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.” Steve Jobs

“No statement can be profound once it has been repeated by others.” William Thomas

“The two prime movers in the universe are time and luck.” Kurt Vonnegut

“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.” Victor Hugo

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” Leon Trotsky

“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.” Franklin P. Jones

“Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.” Marquis de Lafayette

“The best way out is always through.” Robert Frost

“Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.” Laurence J. Peter

“Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is.” Sir Winston Churchill

“The most tragic word in the English language is 'potential.'” Arthur Lotti

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them.” Lionel Atwill

“In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.” John Steinbeck

“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.” Victor Hugo

“When cost is number one in importance, you've already lost.” Jim Rembach

“High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.” Henry Louis Mencken

“Every artist was first an amateur.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.” Sunzi

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.” Confucius

“A company is only as good as the people it keeps.” Mary Kay Ash