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