Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
I've never danced while driving, nor put on makeup.
Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.
If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.
. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
On or about December 1910, human character changed.
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.
The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
Some of your greatest blessings come with patience.
We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
In what we really understand, we reason but little.
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon.
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.
I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.
If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.
Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.
Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry