Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. ~ Kahlil Gibran #Quote
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche #Quote
He makes no friends who never made a foe. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson #Quote
He does me double wrong - That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. ~ William Shakespeare #Quote
Sometimes the best man for the job isn't. ~ Author Unknown #Quote
A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson #Quote
I can pick your face out from the front or behind. ~ The Rolling Stones #Lyrics
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. ~ Johann von Goethe #Quote
Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. ~ Rudyard Kipling #Quote
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ~ Kahlil Gibran #Quote
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. ~ Johann von Goethe #Quote
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote
Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind. ~ Dan Fogelberg, Ghosts #lyrics
All I know is you're my favourite mistake. ~ Sheryl Crow #lyrics
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch fork. ~ Jonathan Swift #Quote
I'm a serious man, I've got a serious lust. ~ The Rolling Stones #lyrics
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. ~ John Lennon #Quote
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other. ~ Victor Hugo #Quote
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. ~ John Lennon #Quote
I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. ~ James Joyce #Quote
The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. ~ Blaise Pascal #Quote
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. ~ Henry David Thoreau #Quote
What the head makes cloudy, the heart makes clear. ~ Don Henley #Lyrics
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. ~ Victor Hugo #Quote
Arm chair warriors often fail. ~ Don Henley #lyrics
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. ~ Joseph Heller #Quote
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. ~ Ann Landers #Quote
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. ~ Ernest Hemingway #Quote
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ~ Randall Munroe #Quote
When you told me you didn't need me anymore, well you know I nearly broke down and cried. ~ The Beatles #Lyrics
The people rate strength before everything. ~ Johann von Goethe #Quote
Habit is stronger than reason. ~ George Santayana #Quote
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? ~ George Orwell, 1984 #Quote
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. ~ Gunther Grass #Quote
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. ~ Seneca the Elder #Quote
There are grammatical errors even in his silence. ~ Stanislaw Lec #Quote
What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon. ~ Voltaire #Quote
The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche #Quote
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~ Norman Vincent Peale #Quote
Climb to tranquility, finding it's real worth, conceiving the heavens flourishing on earth. ~ The Moody Blues #Lyrics
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. ~ Sting #Quote
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. ~ John Maynard Keynes #Quote
It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti #Quote
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. ~ Jonathan Swift #Quote
You got to roll with the punches to get to what's real. ~ Van Halen, Jump #lyrics
Good thoughts bring forth good fruit, bull shit thoughts rot your meat. Think right, and you can fly. The kingdom of heaven is within. ~ Funkadelic #Lyrics
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment. ~ Lao-Tzu #Quote
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are, you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. ~ Gertrude Stein #Quote
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche #Quote
The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him - an irrational form which no other can outbid. ~ Carl Gustav Jung #Quote
Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. ~ Mignon McLaughlin #Quote
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. ~ Voltaire #Quote
This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbour's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one... ~ Garrison Keillor #Quote
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. ~ Blaise Pascal #Quote
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