Famous quotes by Authors

"Action speaks louder than words, but not nearly as often"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"A library implies an act of faith"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"To lead people, walk behind them"

Lao Tzu, Author

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"To survive it is often necessary to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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