Famous Quotes

These violent delights have violent ends.

~ William Shakespeare

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man without words is a man without thought.

~ John Steinbeck

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

~ Madeleine L'engle

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

~ Kevin Brooks

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

~ Henry David Thoreau

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

~ Holly Black

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

~ Lynsay Sands

There are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you.

~ Ashley Rice

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

~ Galileo Galilei

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

~ William Shakespeare

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

~ Eckhart Tolle

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

~ Dante Alighieri

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends, they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

~ Emily Brontë

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

~ John Milton

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

~ Anton Chekhov

When in doubt, choose to live.

~ Terry Pratchett

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

~ Carl Sagan

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

~ Alexander Pope

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.

~ Brian Rathbone

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

~ Hippolyte Taine

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

~ Paulo Coelho

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.]

~ Philip Pullman

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

~ Louisa May Alcott

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of thecat, although in this case there were three determinate states the catcould be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

~ Terry Pratchett

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

When you're in a Slump,you're not in for much fun.Un-slumping yourselfis not easily done.

~ Dr. Seuss

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

~ Terence Mckenna

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures, but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

~ Mark Twain

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know muchJust remember two main rules for the beginning:You better starve, than eat whateverAnd better be alone, than with whoever.

~ Omar Khayyám

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

~ Tad Williams

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

~ William Jordan

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

~ Patrick Jones

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

~ Harry Truman