Famous quotes by Editors

"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"You have to make it happen"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country"

Horace Greeley, Editor

Horace Greeley

"Ease up, the play is over"

Horace Greeley, Editor

Horace Greeley

"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot"

Horace Greeley, Editor

Horace Greeley

"Go west, young man"

Horace Greeley, Editor

Horace Greeley

"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages"

Horace Greeley, Editor

Horace Greeley

"The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it"

Horace Greeley, Editor

Horace Greeley

"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it"

Horace Greeley, Editor

Horace Greeley

"Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

Helen Gurley Brown

"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

Helen Gurley Brown

"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

Helen Gurley Brown

"You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

Helen Gurley Brown

"One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

Helen Gurley Brown

"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

Helen Gurley Brown

"You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

Helen Gurley Brown

"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

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