Proverb Quotes by AFRICAN PROVERB-1431802216
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Proverb Quotes by ARAB PROVERB-1431797783
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
Quotations Quotes by PIERRE BAYLE-1431793680
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Quotations Quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1431791899
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Quotations Quotes by ROBERT BENCHLEY-1431789054
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Quotations Quotes by ROBERT CHAPMAN-1431787603
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Quotations Quotes by ROBERT M. HAMILTON-1431786401
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Quotations Quotes by RUDYARD KIPLING-1431785946
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Quotations Quotes by SAMUEL JOHNSON-1431779806
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Quotations Quotes by SAMUEL JOHNSON-1431768290
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Quotations Quotes by SENECA-1431765217
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Quotations Quotes by HESKETH PEARSON-1431761353
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Quotations Quotes by HESKETH PEARSON-1431759620
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Quotations Quotes by JOSEPH ROUX-1431751031
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Quotations Quotes by LORD PETER WIMSEY-1431716114
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Quotations Quotes by MARLENE DIETRICH-1431714841
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Quotations Quotes by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES-1431713289
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Quotations Quotes by ORSON WELLES-1431711918
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Quotations Quotes by OSCAR WILDE-1431710578
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Quotations Quotes by ANONYMOUS-1431709246
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Quotations Quotes by BRENDAN FRANCIS-1431709056
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Quotations Quotes by C. E. MONTAGUE-1431707625
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
Quotations Quotes by CALDWELL OKEEFE-1431706184
I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffible idea I seek to express.
Quotations Quotes by DAN QUAYLE-1431703310
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Quotations Quotes by DOCTOR WHO-1431664810
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
Quotations Quotes by DOROTHY PARKER-1431664790
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
Quotations Quotes by H. L. MENCKEN-1431663713
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Quotations Quotes by ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD-1431625839
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
Quotations Quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1431624499
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Quotations Quotes by AMANDA CROSS-1431622758
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
Quotations Quotes by AMBROSE BIERCE-1431620273
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Quotations Quotes by ANATOLE FRANCE-1431618882
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Quotations Quotes by BENJAMIN DISRAELI-1431611674
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Religion Quotes by ALBERT EINSTEIN-1431580243
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Religion Quotes by CARL SANDBURG-1431538971
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Religion Quotes by CHARLES LAMB-1431537490
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Religion Quotes by D. H. LAWRENCE-1431532658
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
Religion Quotes by ERIC HOFFER-1431492555
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Religion Quotes by FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS-1431492236
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
Religion Quotes by H. L. MENCKEN-1431457543
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Religion Quotes by JAMES FEIBLEMAN-1431456012
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
Religion Quotes by MATTHEW ARNOLD-1431453231
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Religion Quotes by ALI IBN-ABI-TALIB-1431451710
Submission to God's Will is the best companion; wisdom is the noblest heritage; theoretical and practical knowledge are the best signs of distinction; deep thinking will present the clearest picture of every problem.
Religion Quotes by ALBERT EINSTEIN-1431448670
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Success Quotes by MICHAEL FLATLEY-1431444171
Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done', I know I'm close to success.
Success Quotes by NORMAN VINCENT PEALE-1431441537
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Success Quotes by REGGIE LEACH-1431404879
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Success Quotes by SENECA-1431370728
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Success Quotes by HELEN HAYES-1431369007
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'
Quotations Quotes by EDWARD YOUNG-1431367606
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Quotations Quotes by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW-1431365865
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Success Quotes by IRVING BERLIN-1431364599
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Success Quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1431361701
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Success Quotes by HENRY KISSINGER-1431358577
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Success Quotes by DAVID MCCULLOUGH-1431355663
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Success Quotes by DAVID ROCKEFELLER-1431355080
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
Success Quotes by DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER-1431318985
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Success Quotes by EMILY DICKINSON-1431283751
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Success Quotes by FRANKLIN P. JONES-1431280410
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Success Quotes by ANNA QUINDLEN-1431274197
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Success Quotes by ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN-1431269527
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Success Quotes by BOB DYLAN-1431264254
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Success Quotes by CECIL B. DEMILLE-1431248751
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Success Quotes by CHRISTOPHER MORLEY-1431245818
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Success Quotes by CONFUCIUS-1431242056
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
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