English Quotes

“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

“I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.” Jean-Luc Godard

“It's a very intimate experience, reading a book. You're as close as you get to anyone - except in bed. No, closer.” J. G. Ballard

“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression.” Swami Sivananda

“The difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad.” Salvador Dali

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.” George Carlin

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.” Andy Warhol

“Being idle is very hard work because everyone is against you.” Oscar Wilde

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” Ernest Hemingway

“I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.” John Belushi

“When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?'” Henry Rollins

“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” Albert Einstein

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.” Leo Tolstoy

“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” Plato

“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.” Laozi