Random Quotes
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W Q X Y ZThere are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Author: Muhammad Ali
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God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
Author: Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper editor
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Author: Mark Twain
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
Author: Aleister Crowley
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Author: Cyril Connolly
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A great flame follows a little spark.
Author: Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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A smiling face is half the meal.
Author: Latvian Proverb
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
Author: Sophia Loren
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To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Author: Liz Smith
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Author: H. L. Mencken
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Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Author: Steven Wright
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Author: Mark Twain
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
Author: Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.
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Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
Author: Michael Korda
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[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
Author: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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