Quotes

Quotes

Quotes to inspire and reflect

Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
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Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Dutch Philosopher

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Peter de Vries
Peter de Vries
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
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Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Voltaire
Voltaire
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people are to be taken in very small doses.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
The worshiper is the father of the gods
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H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
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Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is. Jean Anouilh #0766 We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
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François de La Rochefoucauld
François de La Rochefoucauld
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Wilson Mizner
Wilson Mizner
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
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Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. Edgar Allan Poe #0754Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Anatole France
Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him
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Platão
Platão
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

(Attributed)

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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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Voltaire
Voltaire
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

as he sipped champagne on his deathbed

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Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson
The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars.
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Don Marquis
Don Marquis
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.
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Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
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Malcolm De Chazal
Malcolm De Chazal
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.

quoting a friend

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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
All children are essentially criminal.
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James Thurber
James Thurber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
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Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
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Lord Byron
Lord Byron
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other." H.P.
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Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Ursula K.
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Voltaire
Voltaire
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
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