English Quotes

“Human kind cannot bear very much reality.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.” Satchel Paige

“Science is not illusion. But it would be an illusion to suppose that we could get anywhere else what it cannot give us.” Sigmund Freud

“Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.” E. Jean Carroll

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates

“I run to see who has the most guts.” Steve Roland Prefontaine

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Dylan Thomas

“To contemplate is to look at shadows.” Victor Hugo

“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” St. Francis of Assisi

“Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.” John Beecher

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” Albert Einstein

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” Pablo Picasso

“One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided whenever possible.” Sir Winston Churchill

“Long-range planning works best in the short term.” Doug Evelyn

“Do difficult things while they're easy & do great things while they're small. A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.” Laozi

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Martin Luther King Jr.

“You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.” Sir Richard Burton

“I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.” Laozi

“First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.” Leo Rosten

“For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.” Laozi

“The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat.” Lily Tomlin

“Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.” Arnold Glasow

“Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.” Andreas Capellanus

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.” Bible

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” Marcus Aurelius

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” Bertrand Russell

“As long as you can laugh at yourself you will never cease to be amused.” Anonymous

“The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.” Benjamin Franklin

“I really like performing when I'm mad. And I'm always mad at boys.” Avril Lavigne

“Real teens are a lot more circumspect when they're hot for someone.” Michael Sicinski

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I think all great innovations are built on rejections.” Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.” Kahlil Gibran

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” Thomas Jefferson

“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.” Oscar Wilde

“Fall down seven times; stand up eight times.” Japanese Proverb

“We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Alva Edison

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.” Albert Einstein

“We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die.” Nicolas Cage

“Many great actions are committed in small struggles.” Victor Hugo

“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?” Friedrich Nietzsche

“You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.” Charles C. Noble

“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.” Victor Hugo

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” Joseph Addison

“Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Anxiety is the price we pay for civilization.” Sigmund Freud

“Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.” Gary Busey

“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” Anatole France

“Be the chief but never the lord.” Laozi

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” Laozi

“Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.” Thomas Beecham

“I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth.” Tom Waits

“Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.” Woody Allen

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” Albert Einstein

“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.” Andy Warhol

“Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund. (Morning hours put gold in your mouth.)” German Proverb

“It's Life that defeats the Christian Church. She's always well-equipped to deal with Death.” Joe Orton

“War is hell.” William Tecumseh Sherman

“In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes we blur the distinction between art and life; sometimes we try to clarify it. We don't stand on one leg. We stand on both.” John Cage

“There are 3 types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.” Mary Kay Ash

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.” Chinese Proverb

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” Aristotle

“Toleration is the best religion.” Victor Hugo

“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” Aristotle

“Blame it on a simple twist of fate.” Bob Dylan

“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.” Lee Simonson

“Weather forecast for tonight: dark.” George Carlin

“Love each other or perish.” Wystan Hugh Auden

“I love to doubt as well as know.” Dante Alighieri

“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

“When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.” Jean-Luc Godard

“Man is by nature a political animal.” Aristotle

“To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” Elbert Hubbard

“Many a man would have turned rogue if he had known how.” William Hazlitt

“Could it be that all those trick-or-treaters wearing sheets aren't going as ghosts but as mattresses?” George Carlin

“There is power to visualization. Simply picture yourself accomplishing your goals for the day in stride, and you'll be closer to doing so.” Kate Bratskeir

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” Aristotle

“Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.” Victor Hugo

“When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.” Victor Hugo

“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.” Groucho Marx

“There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.” Victor Hugo

“I hate quotations, tell me what you know.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” Edger Allen Poe

“It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.” Zig Ziglar

“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” Red Adair

“I call architecture frozen music.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” Calvin Coolidge

“Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.” James Douglas Morrison

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” A. A. Milne

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” William Thoreau

“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.” Fred Allen

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.” Ambrose Bierce

“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.” Unknown

“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!” William Allen White

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” Bertrand Russell

“Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted.” Tug McGraw

“There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.” Edward Young

“Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want.” John Cage

“The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.” Karl Marx

“We must be uncompromising to the end.” Erik Satie

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Emma Lazarus

“Generosity enjoys the happiness of others, as though it were responsible for it.” The Comte de Lautreamont

“With difficult questions, there are many truths.” Ed Ruggero

“Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll.” Shigeru Miyamoto

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” Sydney J. Harris

“When someone comes up and tells me that they love the music, I yell, 'Me too!' And we just hug.” Andrew Wilkes-Krier

“The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I'll repeat them after him.” Andy Warhol

“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale

“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The first thing todecide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if other fellow says no.” Ernest Bevin

“When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't.” Leo Burnett

“Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater--you do the math!” Nathan Lane

“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.” Aristotle