English Quotes

“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