Quotes to inspire and reflect

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Comedy is allied to justice.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not.

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it....

A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.

What we plan we build.

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

STAY is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question.

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.

The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.