Famous quotes by Authors

"Age, like distance, lends a double charm"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings'"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"Suffering is one of life's great teachers"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"In all ranks of life, the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A woman's health is her capital"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries"

A. A. Milne, Author

A. A. Milne

"If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name"

A. A. Milne, Author

A. A. Milne

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all"

Sam Ewing, Author

Sam Ewing

"We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit"

Sam Ewing, Author

Sam Ewing

"The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists"

Sam Ewing, Author

Sam Ewing

"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes"

Marilyn French, Author

Marilyn French

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