Famous quotes by Authors

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Have a strong mind and a soft heart"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"The true art of memory is the art of attention"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"Desire creates the power"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable"

Thomas More, Author

Thomas More

"Love has no age, no limit; and no death"

John Galsworthy, Author

John Galsworthy

"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom"

Clifford Stoll, Author

"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"To give your best is to receive the best"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You can't make a souffle rise twice"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them"

A. A. Milne, Author

A. A. Milne

"The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine"

Marcus Terentius Varro, Author

Marcus Terentius Varro

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