Quotes to inspire and reflect

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Doubts are crueler than the worst of truths.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

Hatred is the anger of the weak.

In solitude especially do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. Thomas Babington Macaulay #4885 People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

The computer is a moron.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature --- and another woman to help him forget them.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Excessive literary production is a social offense. George Eliot, a.k.a.

In love there are things --- bodies and words.

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.