English Quotes

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.” Woody Allen

“Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.” Oscar Wilde

“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.” Dr. Seuss

“If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?” Vince Lombardi

“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” Richard Bach

“Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.” George Eliot

“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.” Oscar Wilde

“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.” Elvis Presley

“Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.” William Butler Yeats

“Art and science have their meeting point in method.” Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

“Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.” Robert A. Heinlein

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.” Aristotle

“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have not yet begun to fight!” John Paul Jones

“I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.” Nikos Kazantzakis

“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles - on her own nose all the time.” Josh Billings

“The more vivid your imagination, the more dangerous the world becomes.” Matthew Lotti

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln

“Failures are divided into two classes – those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.” John Charles Salak

“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.” Dorothy Parker

“Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.” Princess Diana

“Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” Georges Louis Leclerc

“Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.” David Rakoff

“There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.” Pen Densham

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller

“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.” John Ruskin

“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.” Blaise Pascal

“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.” Leo Tolstoy

“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The simplification of anything is always sensational.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Who servers two masters has to lie to one.” Anonymous

“The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.” Aristotle

“I've got about the attention span of a gnat on speed.” Thom Yorke

“They're either at your throat or they're at your feet.” Stanley Kubrick

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” The Dalai Lama

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for falling in love.” Albert Einstein

“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” Sandra Carey

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” Alexander Smith

“People get into a rhythm that makes them resistant to change... try switching hands when you brush your teeth in the morning.” Gary Gesme

“The way I look at life - we're all on the Hindenberg, so there's no use in arguing over the window seat.” Richard Geni

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” Carl Gustav Jung

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” Sam Keen

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.” Aristotle

“Not all who wander are lost.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” Voltaire

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.” Woody Allen

“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.” Archibald McLeish

“Il faut cultiver notre jardin. [We must cultivate our garden.]” Voltaire

“Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.” Swedish Proverb

“Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple.” David Keuck

“No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.” Victor Hugo

“Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.” Karl Marx

“To the senseless nothing is more maddening than sense.” Aldous Huxley

“If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.” Wilson Mizner

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell

“The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be.” Elaine M. Ward

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Sunzi

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

“To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.” Thomas Campbell

“Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one.” Dr. Seuss

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” Hunter S. Thompson

“A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span.” John Steinbeck

“A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.” Claude Rains

“Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.” Victor Hugo

“Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity.” Michel Montaigne

“One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books.” Jonathan Franzen

“The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.” Viktor E. Frankl

“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.” Winston Churchill

“God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all.” John A. Simone Sr.

“Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.” Frank Sinatra

“People who make no noise are dangerous.” La Fontaine

“The end game is whether they (customers) are getting the right product at the right time at a competitive price.” Max Guinn, Deere & Co.

“It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.” John Stuart Mill

“Plato was a bore.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“We make war that we may live in peace.” Aristotle

“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.” The Dalai Lama

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” Aldous Huxley

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!” Henry Ford

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Samuel Johnson

“Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.” The Prophet Mohammad

“There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” George Orson Welles

“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank

“I had a divorce to pay for, frankly.” Billy Bob Thornton

“Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.” Woody Allen

“I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.” Joan Rivers

“The joy of killing has become greater and, besides, has become popularized in proportion to the spread of social refinement.” Octave Mirbeau

“Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.” William Shakespeare

“Money is a poor man's credit card.” Marshall McLuhan

“I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends.” William Shakespeare

“If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe I'm somebody else.” Daniel Day Lewis

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

“Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.” Sir Noel Coward

“Children spell love...T-I-M-E.” Dr. Anthony P. Witham

“It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations.” Sir Winston Churchill

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln

“Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.” Zadie Smith

“Celebrate the speed at which you're traveling instead of the destination you've reached.” Max Guinn, Deere & Co.

“Blushing is the color of virtue.” Matthew Henry

“The eyes are the windows to the soul.” Karsh of Ottawa

“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol

“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” Walt Disney

“To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.” Joseph Addison

“If I were hungry, I would happily hunt anything that runs or crawls or flies, even relatives, and tear them down with my teeth.” John Steinbeck

“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.” Alexander Dumas

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.” Herman Melville

“Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker. Transl: Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let us endeavor to live, so that when we die, even the undertaker will be sorry.” Mark Twain

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.” Isaac Asimov

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.” George Bernard Shaw

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” Mark Twain

“Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.” Laozi