English Quotes

“A true soul need not hide his thoughts.” Hjalmar Soderberg

“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.” Tom Stoppard

“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.” Victor Hugo

“What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?” Lindsay Anderson

“To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.” The Prophet Mohammad

“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” Mark Twain

“Who so belongs only to his age references only poppinjays and mumbo-jumbos.” Thomas Carlyle

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.” Aristotle

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” Ernest Hemingway

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” Victor Hugo

“Responsible artists try to affect you sensually in a way that enlarges your experience.” Pauline Kael

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” Plato

“Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest I rust.)” German Proverb

“I have an unfortunate personality.” George Orson Welles

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” Voltaire

“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.” Erica Jong

“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.” Victor Hugo

“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” Sir Winston Churchill

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!” Victor Hugo

“Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.” Chinese Proverb

“Everyone has the right to risk their own life in order to save it.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.” William Tecumseh Sherman

“The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.” Sunzi

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there's nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” Laozi

“Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror.” Noam Chomsky

“Just be prepared for a long and often uncertain journey. The good stuff doesn't come easy.” Tim Westergren

“A bestfriend is a sibling God forgot to give you.” Anonymous

“The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.” Woody Allen

“An author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of the afterward.” Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

“Getting drunk, you're in control. It's the difference between suicide and capitulation.” James Douglas Morrison

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” John Gardner

“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.” Victor Hugo

“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.” Marian Wright Edelman

“This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.” Abraham Lincoln

“Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.” Henry Louis Mencken

“The darkest hour is only sixty minutes.” Anonymous

“It's discourging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” Sir Noel Coward

“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.” Alice Walker

“In the world there's nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.” Laozi

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” Frank Zappa

“In the end, everything is a gag.” Charlie Chaplin

“It's a rough temptation, but a common invitation ... So take my advice, that's jail bait.” Andre Williams

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” William Butler Yeats

“The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone.” Albert Camus

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding.” Louis Brandeis

“College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.” John Cage

“Such as bathing appears to you - oil, sweat, dirt, filthy water, all disgusting - so is every part of life and everything.” Marcus Aurelius

“If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.” Thomas Friedman

“Keep your heart a desert.” Benito Mussolini

“You can tell if you're in an attractive American spot: it's littered with trash.” John Cage

“We must love one another or die.” Wystan Hugh Auden

“If my film makes one more person feel miserable, I'll feel like I've done my job.” Woody Allen

“A library implies an act of faith.” Victor Hugo

“The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.” Marie Henri Beyle

“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.” Aristotle

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” Oscar Wilde

“Everybody wants to get into the act.” Jimmy Durante

“...This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.” Susan Griffin

“A clever man commits no minor blunders.” Unknown

“When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.” Laozi

“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu

“The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.” Andy Warhol

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.” Aristotle

“No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.” Lord Clarendon

“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.” Victor Hugo

“Coarse talk does not come into anything without disgracing it, and modesty does not come into anything without adorning it.” The Prophet Mohammad

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

“Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence.” Vince Lombardi

“For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.” Henry Louis Mencken

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.” Jane Austen

“It's better for a lion to lead lambs than for a lamb to lead lions.” Arthur Lotti

“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” Sunzi

“The joy of life? Is there salvation in that?” Henrik Ibsen

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

“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” Douglas Adams

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight Eisenhower

“Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.” Antonin Artaud

“The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.” George Orson Welles

“The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.” Natty Nats

“Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else, unless it is an enemy.” Albert Einstein

“If everything appears to be going well, you don't know what the hell is going on.” Anonymous

“Every baby needs a lap.” Henry Robin

“Work like u don't need the money. Love like u've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Live like it's Heaven on Earth.” Mark Twain

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” Victor Hugo

“The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.” Ayn Rand

“Change in all things is sweet.” Aristotle

“Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.” H. Ross Perot

“I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.” Edger Allen Poe

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” Aesop

“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it.” Unknown

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” Mohandas Gandhi

“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” Victor Hugo

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” Victor Hugo

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” Margaret Thatcher

“I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of `agnostic'.” Thomas Henry Huxley

“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet

“If one truly has lost hope, one would not be around to say so.” Eric Bentley

“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.” Aristotle

“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.” Marian Anderson

“Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!” Clive Staples Lewis

“Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” George Washington

“Conscience is God present in man.” Victor Hugo

“It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.” Mick Jagger

“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.” Thomas Jefferson

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you must allure the senses to it.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“He [Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” Sir Winston Churchill