English Quotes

“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not thru insensibility but thru greatness of mind.” Aristotle

“The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.” Joan Baez

“Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.” Kurt Cobain

“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.” William Shakespeare

“All I got in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break either of 'em for nobody!” Al Pacino

“Nobody helps anybody.” Martin Kippenberger

“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.” Victor Hugo

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Thomas Alva Edison

“If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Luck never gives: it only lends.” Chinese Proverb

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius

“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.” Sunzi

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” Aristotle

“Is the cinema more important than life?” Francois Truffaut

“I want to die like my grandfather; peacefully in my sleep. Not screaming like his passengers.” Anonymous

“I would rather watch somebody buy their underwear than read a book they wrote.” Andy Warhol

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.” George Bernard Shaw

“The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.” Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” Carl Sagan

“O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth...” John Keats

“We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.” Aristotle

“A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.” Saadi

“I like a man who grins when he fights.” Sir Winston Churchill

“Every accomplishment begins with the decision to try.” Gail Devers

“If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.” Noam Chomsky

“There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.” Agnes Repplier

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Actors: Bores to themselves, to others caviar.” Phaedrus

“Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, beliving nothing we cannot measure or weigh.” John Steinbeck

“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.” Sunzi

“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.” Victor Hugo

“Art raises its head where creeds relax.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.” Kenneth Tynan

“Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.” George Halas

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge... / Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice / Cry 'havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war...” William Shakespeare

“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.” Norman McLaren

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” Mark Twain

“Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.” Raymonde Uy

“I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.” Oliver Reed

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” Theodore Roosevelt

“You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.” Milton Berle

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to be a man of value.” Albert Einstein

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” Oscar Wilde

“To love is to risk not being loved in return, but risk must be taken because the greatest jeopardy in life is to risk nothing.” Unknown

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Anne Dillard

“Ether is the perfect drug for Las Vegas. In this town they love a drunk. Fresh meat.” Hunter S. Thompson

“I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.” Quentin Tarantino

“Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.” Samuel Johnson

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” John D. Rockefeller

“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death: ourselves.” Eda J. Le Shan

“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein

“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness [then].” Sir Anthony Hopkins

“To live is to dream and to die is to awaken.” Anonymous

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“To be German means to carry on a matter for its own sake.” Richard Wagner

“Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” Samuel Johnson

“Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?” George Gershwin

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde

“Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it.” Matthew Lotti

“Art is the proper task of life.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“One makes war to win, not because it's just.” Michel Foucault

“Tradition is the illusion of permanance.” Woody Allen

“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call.” Joe Orton

“Readiness is all.” William Shakespeare

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” Thomas Gray

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” Helen Keller

“Action is character.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A good criterion for measuring success is the number of people you have made happy.” Neil Patel

“Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” The Buddha

“It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.” John A. Simone Jr.

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” George Orson Welles

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” General George Patton

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” Euripides

“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.” George Orson Welles

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck

“If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer.” Richard A. May

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well start laughing now.” Anonymous

“Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.” General Michel Aoun

“Sometimes I need what only you can provide - Your absence.” Ashleigh Brilliant

“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.” Laozi

“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.” Woody Allen

“There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.” Anonymous

“Judo is, in effect, the discovery of the human body in a spiritual space.” Yves Klein

“Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'” John Cage

“I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.” Ashleigh Brilliant

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” Abraham Lincoln

“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.” Victor Hugo

“There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.” Finn Taylor

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.” Aristotle

“You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” Jim Rohn

“Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“To love another person is to see the face of God.” Victor Hugo

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Silence is a source of great strength.” Laozi

“I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.” Samuel Goldwyn

“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.” Victor Hugo

“Comedy is not so much what you do as what you don't do.” Groucho Marx

“Life is first boredom, then fear.” Philip Larkin