English Quotes

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down.” Steve Jobs — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 8, 2019

"At 15, I had my mind bent on learning. At 30, I stood firm. At 40, I had no doubts. At 50, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At 60, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth. At 70, I could follow what my heart desired without transgressing what was right." The Analects — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 7, 2019

“All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.” Michel de Montaigne — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 29, 2019

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” Carl W. Buechner — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 28, 2019

“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 27, 2019

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.” Aristotle — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 25, 2019

“Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.” John Cage — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 25, 2019

“Every night, when I go to sleep, I die. Every morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” Mohandas Gandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 23, 2019

“The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.” Chinese Proverb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 22, 2019

“Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.” Anne Dillard — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 21, 2019

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Ralph Waldo Emerson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 20, 2019

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” Laozi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 18, 2019

“How do you write woman so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.” Jack Nicholson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 18, 2019

“We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.” Henry Ford — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 17, 2019

“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.” Agatha Christie — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 16, 2019

“No judge must give judgment between two people when he is angry.” The Prophet Mohammad — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 15, 2019

“Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.” George Bernard Shaw — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 14, 2019

“Art is the proper task of life.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 13, 2019

“A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.” Marie Henri Beyle — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 11, 2019

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 11, 2019

“What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.” Robert Orban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 10, 2019

“Life will not break your heart. It will crush it.” Henry Rollins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 9, 2019

“Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.” Charles Schultz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 8, 2019

“I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog.” James Thurber — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 7, 2019

“Life is like a box of chocolate, it will melt and expire whether you eat it, ignore it, enjoy it or not.” Budming — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 6, 2019

“A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.” Brendan Francis — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 4, 2019

“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.” E. B. White — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 4, 2019

“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” Jack Handey — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 3, 2019

“My symbol for hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or a thoroughly nasty business office.” Clive Staples Lewis — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 2, 2019

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“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.” Aristotle — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 30, 2019

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Alva Edison — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 29, 2019

“Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.” Klaus Kinski — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 27, 2019

“There is a breed of desert men, not hiding exactly but gone to sanctuary from the sins of confusion.” John Steinbeck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 27, 2019

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 26, 2019

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas Alva Edison — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 25, 2019

“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” Mohandas Gandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 24, 2019

“A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 23, 2019

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 22, 2019

“The soul never thinks without a picture.” Aristotle — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 20, 2019

“...scientific theorey is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.” Wilhelm Reich — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 20, 2019

“The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.” Sir Winston Churchill — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 19, 2019

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 18, 2019

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” Albert Einstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 17, 2019

“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.” Thomas Jefferson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 16, 2019

“If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life.” Anonymous — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 15, 2019

“Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.” The Buddha — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 13, 2019

“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 13, 2019

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.” Jean Genet — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 12, 2019

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” Victor Hugo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 11, 2019

“I am myself and if I have to hit my head against a brick wall to remain true to myself, I will do it.” Marlon Brando — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 10, 2019

“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.” Harry S. Truman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 9, 2019

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.” H. Jackson Brown Jr. — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 8, 2019

“The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.” Peter Ustinov — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 6, 2019

“U can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time u get it built, they'll want sth new” Steve Jobs — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 6, 2019

“We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 5, 2019

“Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.” Matt Groening — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 4, 2019

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.” Charles Caleb Colton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 3, 2019

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.” Oscar Wilde — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 2, 2019

“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.” Victor Hugo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 1, 2019

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream.” Eleanor Roosevelt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2019

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.” Robert Frost — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2019

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Douglas Adams — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2019

“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.” Victor Hugo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2019

“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.” Rosalind Russell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 27, 2019

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Benjamin Franklin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2019

“So little done, so much to do.” Cecil Rhodes — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2019

“Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.” Victor Hugo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2019

“No art is possible without a dance with death.” Louis-Ferdinand Celine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 13, 2019

“He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.” Victor Hugo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2019

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.” Andy Warhol — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 11, 2019

“He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance.” Joseph Muchemi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2019

“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.” Georges Bataille — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2019

“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?” John Steinbeck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2019

“I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.” Wolfgang Puck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2019

“If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six sharpening my ax.” Abraham Lincoln — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2019

“The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.” Carl Gustav Jung — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2019

“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.” Oscar Wilde — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 4, 2019

“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.” Fernando Pessoa — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 1, 2019

“In heaven all the interesting people are missing.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 30, 2019

“In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.” Cesar Chavez — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 29, 2019

“I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.” W. C. Fields — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 28, 2019

“No one loves the man whom he fears.” Aristotle — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 27, 2019

“Follow the dollar.” Clark Mollenhoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 25, 2019

“Vanity is but the surface.” Blaise Pascal — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 25, 2019

“Perhaps nobody yet has been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 24, 2019

“Making love to a woman is like buying real estate: location, location, location.” Carol Leifer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 23, 2019

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” Neale Donald Walsch — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 22, 2019

“Don't MEET expectations EXCEED them!” Neil Patel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 21, 2019

“Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear for a penny.” Plutarch — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 20, 2019

“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.” Serge Gainsbourg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 18, 2019

“Don't agonize, organize.” Florynce Kennedy — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 18, 2019

“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.” Herman Melville — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 17, 2019

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.” Oscar Wilde — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 16, 2019

“One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored.” Itzhak Perlman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 15, 2019

“Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.” Simon Fowler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 14, 2019

“You'll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.” Philip Seymour Hoffman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 13, 2019

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 11, 2019

“Spice is the spice of life.” William Thomas — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 11, 2019

“America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.” Bobcat Goldthwaite — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 10, 2019

“The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.” Marshall McLuhan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 9, 2019

“Spend some time alone every day.” The Dalai Lama — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 8, 2019

“He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.” Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 7, 2019

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” Virginia Woolf — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 6, 2019

“Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.” Hunter S. Thompson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 4, 2019

“Science is neither discontinuous nor monolithic. It is variously jointed, and loose in the joints in varying degrees.” Willard van Ormon Quine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 4, 2019

“It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a reqime that does not maintain any military secrets.” Albert Einstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 3, 2019

“If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!” Kevin Spacey — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 2, 2019

“God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes.” Joe Orton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) April 1, 2019

“Humor is just another defense against the universe.” Mel Brooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) March 31, 2019

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” Paul Guaguin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) March 30, 2019

“Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.” James Baldwin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) March 28, 2019

“I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.” Confucius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) March 28, 2019

“The ox suffers, the cart complains.” Victor Hugo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) March 27, 2019

“Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.” Confucius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) March 26, 2019

“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” Steve Jobs — English Quotes (@english_quotes) March 25, 2019

“I want to put a ding in the universe.” Steve Jobs — English Quotes (@english_quotes) March 24, 2019

“Books have knowledge, knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime & crime doesnt pay. So if you keep reading, you'll go broke” Unknown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) March 23, 2019

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” Jimi Hendrix — English Quotes (@english_quotes) March 21, 2019