Famous quotes by Authors

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Remarks are not literature"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"All students can learn"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Every adolescent has that dream, every century has that dream, every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Before the flowers of friendship faded, friendship faded"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner who deals with them, they are so friendly, how can they be so suspicious? They are so suspicious, how can they be so friendly? But they just are"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"The nineteenth century believed in science, but the twentieth century does not"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"In a war, everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times, it is just Switzerland, but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

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