English Quotes

“I'm religiously opposed to religion.” Victor Hugo

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to poverty, but in my case the marriage is not a success.” Oscar Wilde

“... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anais Nin

“Sometimes twenty males are required for the delight of a single female.” Octave Mirbeau

“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” George Orwell

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” Jules Renard

“The doer alone learneth.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?” Friedrich Nietzsche

“To be loved, you must be lovable.” Italian Proverb

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.” Anonymous

“The secret to humor is surprise.” Aristotle

“What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.” Euripides

“The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.” Alfred Adler

“If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.” Win Borden

“Writing a book just might be the hardest thing I've ever done, besides trying to get laid in college.” Howard Stern

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” William Blake

“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” Sunzi

“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.” Sophocles

“I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.” Itzhak Perlman

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” Jean Cocteau

“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.” Vladimir Nabokov

“Quote me as saying I was misquoted.” Groucho Marx

“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” Aristotle

“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.” Groucho Marx

“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“War is a catalogue of blunders.” Sir Winston Churchill

“We've erased a lot of the distinctions between night and day, between weekday and weekend. Our notions of time and space are collapsing.” Susan Orlean

“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.” Minna Antrim

“Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back.” Geoffrey Bocca

“Erst besinnen, dann beginnen. (First think, then begin.)” German Proverb

“Ohne Fleis, kein Preis. (Without industriousness, there is no reward.)” German Proverb

“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” Popular Mechanics

“I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.” George Orson Welles

“If music be the food of love, play on.” William Shakespeare

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.” Dale Carnegie

“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.” Victor Hugo

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay

“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” Aristotle

“Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde

“The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“When written in chinese the word 'crisis' is composed of 2 characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.” Bill Vaughan

“If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” Edith Wharton

“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” Victor Hugo

“The truth is more important than the facts.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“Our DNA is as a consumer company-for that inpidual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about” Steve Jobs

“The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.” George Bernard Shaw

“When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.” Anonymous

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.” Mario Andretti

“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.” Charles Caleb Colton

“You can take a road that gets you to the stars. I can take a road that will see me through.” Nick Drake

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” John Quincy Adams

“When you fall in destitution, trade with Allah with charity.” Ali bin Abi Talib

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people's liberty's teeth.” George Washington

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they're always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power & glory, or happiness.” Aristotle

“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” William Shakespeare

“There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Procrastination is the symptom, but it also illuminates the path you should take.” Leo Babauta

“We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

“To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” Dr. Carl Sagan

“Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love and to put its trust in life!” Joseph Conrad

“Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.” Wilhelm Reich

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” William Shakespeare

“I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.” Ashleigh Brilliant

“Bad luck is blessing from the above, to help fallen ones to stay aware and alive, in order to feel ordinary love again.” Anonymous

“I think modern science should graft functional wings on a pig, simply so no one can ever use that stupid saying again.” Anonymous

“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.” George Orson Welles

“It is of men, and them only, that one should always be frightened.” Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Why is it no one ever sent me yet / One perfect limousine, do you suppose? / Ah no, it's always just my luck to get / One perfect rose.” Dorothy Parker

“Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“All I need is Vaseline and the will to go on.” Josh C. Collins

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.” Chapman Cohen

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?” Robert Browning

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

“The more I think about it, the more I agree with the bees: worship the Queen and kill the unemployed.” Arthur Lotti

“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Nonbeing is the greatest joy.” Laozi

“Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.” Jonathan Franzen

“Everything in moderation.” Giovanni Simone

“A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.” Dr. Seuss

“I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.” M. C. Escher

“Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.” Thomas Edward Lawrence

“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.” Laozi

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Charlie Chaplin

“When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.” James Douglas Morrison

“Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it.” Steven V. Thulon

“Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.” Seth Godin

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Early to rise and early to bed make a man healthy, wealthy and dead.” James Thurber

“I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.” Matt Groening

“Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.” Hunter S. Thompson

“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.” Aristotle

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S. Eliot

“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.” Unknown

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else.” Jean Cocteau

“Believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Private property created crime.” Jenny Holzer

“The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things.” Samuel Johnson

“The only thing worse than symbolism is blatant symbolism.” Odie Henderson

“Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.” Sam Brown

“If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” Laozi

“There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“A true friend stabs you in the front.” Oscar Wilde

“Your mouse has moved. Please restart Windows for the change to take effect.” Anonymous