Quotes to inspire and reflect

Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that, what have you had?

Cats and monkeys—monkeys and cats—all human life is there!

Before you judge me, try hard to love me, look within your heart

On the contrary.

Castles in the air—they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build, too.

But good God, people don’t do such things!

Mother, give me the sun.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

The majority never has right on its side.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

… With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox,

It took the whole of Creation

I got the Weary Blues

I, too, sing America.

I’ve known rivers:

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Hoc erat in votis: modus agri non ita magnus,

Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Etiam disiecti membra poetae.

Est modus in rebus.

… Mutato nomine de te

Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:

Non omnis moriar.

Non sum qualis eram bonae

O fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro.

Exegi monumentum aere perennius.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Post equitem sedet atra Cura.

Nihil est ab omni

Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, Labuntur anni

Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero Pulsanda tellus.

Auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit.

Dum loquimur, fugerit invida

Integer vitae scelerisque purus.

Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum.

Nil desperandum.

Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.