Famous quotes by Authors

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Buy land, they're not making it anymore"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"To see things in the seed, that is genius"

Lao Tzu, Author

"One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others"

Lao Tzu, Author

"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost, right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder"

Lao Tzu, Author

"He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted"

Lao Tzu, Author

"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty"

Lao Tzu, Author

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving"

Lao Tzu, Author

"In order to succeed, you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Don't fear change - embrace it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"To contemplate is to look at shadows"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

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