English Quotes

“Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.” Laozi

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” Ernest Hemingway

“If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.” John A. Simone Sr.

“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.” Victor Hugo

“You make 'em, I amuse 'em.” Dr. Seuss

“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.” Soren Kierkegaard

“I confess, I do not believe in time.” Vladimir Nabokov

“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie?” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days.” W. C. Fields

“From wonder into wonder existence opens.” Laozi

“The difficult can be done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.” Army Corp of Engineers

“Man is a universe within himself.” Bob Marley

“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.” Aristotle

“One believes others will do what he will do to himself.” Victor Hugo

“A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.” Adam Phillips

“Hitch your wagon to a star.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No, the opposite of love is indifference.” Anonymous

“... take any form, drive me mad only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you.” Emily Bronte

“What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve.” Clement Stone

“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.” Laozi

“A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.” General George Patton

“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.” Abraham Lincoln

“Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.” Walter Benjamin

“The birth of every new baby is God's vote of confidence in the future of man.” Imogene Fey

“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

“Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule #1.” Unknown

“He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.” Sunzi

“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” Robert A. Heinlein

“In the rush to cure all the ills to which humans are heir, liberty is too often an innocent bystander--and an accidental casualty.” Barry Goldwater

“When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate.” Addison Whithecomb

“Love is a perky little elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.” Matt Groening

“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” George Bernard Shaw

“I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity.” Jerzy Kosinski

“The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. ” Bruno Bettelheim

“Live not for the battles won. / Live not for the-end-of-the-song. / Live in the along.” Gwendolyn Brooks

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” Oscar Wilde

“Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.” John Derek

“As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.” Jonathan Swift

“The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.” Sir Winston Churchill

“Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Simplicity is the glory of expression.” Walt Whitman

“Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.” Perry Paxton

“Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.” William Shakespeare

“I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.” Blaise Pascal

“The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you,' but 'It's benign.'” Woody Allen

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua J. Marine

“Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.” Marty Feldman

“I am the lizard king. I can do anything.” James Douglas Morrison

“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What passions cannot music raise or quell?” John Dryden

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.” Bible

“Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.” Humphrey Bogart

“I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.” Elvis Costello

“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.” George Orson Welles

“What luck for the rulers that men do not think.” Adolf Hitler

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.” Buster Keaton

“Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'” Nicholas Murray Butler

“You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens.” Angelina Jolie

“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

“Alcohol is the cause and solution to all life's problems.” Dan Castellaneta

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” Aristotle

“I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.” Walker Percy

“Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.” Richard Whately

“It doesn't matter what you write. But don't think that just because you wrote it that it's good.” Neal Pollack

“Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.” Sydney J. Harris

“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.” Aristotle

“Dreams are the touchstones of our personality.” Henry David Thoreau

“One glance at a bookand you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” Carl Sagan

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse (to the trap) gets the cheese.” Anonymous

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.” Victor Hugo

“Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.” George Bernard Shaw

“The reason old souls enjoy spending time alone, is because they never really are.” Unknown

“The man who never made a mistake never made anything.” Derek Longdon

“If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.” Mary Engelbreit

“Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.” Victor Hugo

“Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.” Woody Allen

“Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant.” Anonymous

“If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.” Jayne Howard

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?” Friedrich Nietzsche

“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.” William Shakespeare

“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” Roald Dahl

“Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.” George Bernard Shaw

“I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.” Michael Caine

“Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.” Mark McCormack

“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.” Governor Jesse Ventura

“Have no fear of perfection--you'll never reach it.” Salvador Dali

“The way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.” Jean de La Bruyere

“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.” Aristotle

“In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.” Michel Houellebecq

“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers

“Better is the enemy of good.” Voltaire

“Love is blind--and your cane is pink.” Serge Gainsbourg

“Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.” Muhammad Ali

“Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.” Nikita Khrushchev

“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.” Victor Hugo

“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.” Victor Hugo

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.” Andre Gide

“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“You'll have time to rest when you're dead.” Robert De Niro

“Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.” Rita Mae Brown

“Film lovers are sick people.” Francois Truffaut

“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.” Sir Winston Churchill