English Quotes

“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.” Henry Louis Mencken — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 17, 2018

“When your hobbies get in the way of your work – that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves ... well ...” Steve Martin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 16, 2018

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” Albert Einstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 15, 2018

“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.” Eugene Delacroix — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 13, 2018

“'An eye for an eye' leaves the whole world blind.” Unknown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 13, 2018

“Art is a collaboration between God an the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” Andre Gide — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 12, 2018

“The customer is a rear-view mirror, not a guide to the future.” George Colony — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 11, 2018

“A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.” Saadi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 10, 2018

“Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” William Blake — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 9, 2018

“It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author – and that he did not learn it better.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 8, 2018

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.” Oscar Wilde — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 6, 2018

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 6, 2018

“We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.” Blaise Pascal — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 5, 2018

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 4, 2018

“My girlfriend said to me in bed last night, 'You're a pervert' - I said, 'That's a big word for a girl of nine.'” Emo Philips — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 3, 2018

“If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic simply because it rarely appears sinister.” Zadie Smith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 2, 2018

“I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of supreme poverty.” Groucho Marx — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 1, 2018

“All music must obey me. All pain must obey me.” Russell Jones — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 29, 2018

“My father used to say, you would worry less about what people think if you knew how little they did.” Dr. Phil McGraw — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 29, 2018

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” James Joyce — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 28, 2018

“It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” Sally Kempton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 27, 2018

“Adventure is not outside a man, it is within. ” David Grayson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 26, 2018

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Laozi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 25, 2018

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” Woody Allen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 24, 2018

“To deny our own impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human.” Matt Doran — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 22, 2018

“Beauty without expression is boring.” Ralph Waldo Emerson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 22, 2018

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 21, 2018

“Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.” Alfred Hitchcock — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 20, 2018

“I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much.” Mother Teresa — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 19, 2018

“If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 18, 2018

“Inspiration is made up. It's a self-defeating act of resistance, holding us back from success.” Steve Corona — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 17, 2018

“If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.” Dorothy Parker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 15, 2018

“Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.” Benjamin Disraeli — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 15, 2018

“When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 14, 2018

“One thing at a time, is my motto – and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only two pair and a jack.” Mark Twain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 13, 2018

“When you want to give up, remember why you started.” Unknown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 12, 2018

“America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.” John O'Hara — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 11, 2018

“If you only do what you know you can do, you never do very much.” Tom Krause — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 10, 2018

“America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.” Gloria Steinem — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 8, 2018

“Tom Wolfe was right. You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.” John Steinbeck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 8, 2018

“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.” Albert Einstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 7, 2018

“The price of leadership is responsibilty.” Sir Winston Churchill — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 6, 2018

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” Henry David Thoreau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 5, 2018

“Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.” Pierre Bourdieu — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 4, 2018

“Not all men are worthy of love.” Sigmund Freud — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 3, 2018

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.” Laozi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 1, 2018

“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.” John W. Holt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 1, 2018

“Argue for your limitations and they're yours.” Jonathan Livingston Seagull — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 31, 2018

“I challenged the world and it proved too strong for me; I despised other men and they are taking their revenge.” Benito Mussolini — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 30, 2018

“Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you have lived.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 29, 2018

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 28, 2018

“A fool learns from his experience. A wise person learns from the experience of others.” Otto von Bismarck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 27, 2018

“The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.” John Arbuthnot Fisher — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 25, 2018

“There is no such thing as modern art. There is art - and there is advertising.” Albert Sterner — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 25, 2018

“Individuals and organizations that are good react quickly to change. Individuals and organizations that are great create change.” Robert Kriegel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 24, 2018

“Where wealth accumulates, men decay.” Oliver Goldsmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 23, 2018

“There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.” Michel de Montaigne — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 22, 2018

“The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin!” John Lennon — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 21, 2018

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 20, 2018

“Unlawful combatants do not have any rights under the Geneva Conventions.” Donald H. Rumsfeld — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 18, 2018

“Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.” Robert C. Gallagher — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 18, 2018

“Courage is found in unlikely places.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 17, 2018

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” Laozi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 16, 2018

“The sourness of this world is sweetness of the next world while the sweetness of this world is the sourness of the next one.” Ali bin Abi Talib — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 15, 2018

“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.” Will Rogers — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 14, 2018

“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.” Henry Ford — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 13, 2018

“I made my own house be my gallows.” Dante Alighieri — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 11, 2018

“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.” Confucius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 11, 2018

“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.” Ambrose Bierce — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 10, 2018

“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.” Klaus Kinski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 9, 2018

“Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.” Laozi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 8, 2018

“They are stupid, dirty, do not work hard enough and are content with their little cinema shows.” Benito Mussolini — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 7, 2018

“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 6, 2018

“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.” Jean Cocteau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 4, 2018

“It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.” John Steinbeck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 4, 2018

“It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 3, 2018

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” Hunter S. Thompson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 2, 2018

“The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 1, 2018

“Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.” Marshall McLuhan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 30, 2018

“A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.” Joan Welsh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 29, 2018

“A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.” Eda J. Le Shan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 27, 2018

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 27, 2018

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” Henry David Thoreau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 26, 2018

“Education is a vacine for violence.” Edward James Olmos — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 25, 2018

“Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.” Groucho Marx — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 24, 2018

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.” Robert Hughes — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 23, 2018

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” Albert Camus — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 17, 2018

“The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.” Shirley MacLaine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 13, 2018

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready we shall never begin.” Ivan Turgenev — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 13, 2018

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” Otto von Bismarck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 12, 2018

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marx — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 10, 2018

“Don't limit your challenges, challenge your limits!” Jerry Dunn — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 8, 2018

“Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.” Laozi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 6, 2018

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 6, 2018

“Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 5, 2018

“Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.” Anonymous — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 4, 2018

“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.” Dante Alighieri — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 3, 2018

“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” Groucho Marx — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 2, 2018

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” William Shakespeare — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 1, 2018

“Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.” Richard Feynman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 30, 2018

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 30, 2018

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” Winston Churchill — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 29, 2018

“To see things in the seed, that is genius.” Laozi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 28, 2018

“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.” Marshall McLuhan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 27, 2018

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 26, 2018

“Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise.” Anonymous — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 25, 2018

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry B. Adams — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 23, 2018

“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.” Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 23, 2018

“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.” George Bernard Shaw — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 22, 2018

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 20, 2018

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” Confucius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 19, 2018

“I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.” Ani Difranco — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 18, 2018

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.” Confucius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 16, 2018

“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 16, 2018

“Woman was God's second mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 15, 2018

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.” Oscar Wilde — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 14, 2018

“The unconscious is our best collaborator.” Mike Nichols — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 13, 2018

“You have to believe in yourself.” Sunzi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 12, 2018

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” Victor Hugo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 11, 2018