Famous quotes by Writers

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery"

Michael Harrington, Writer

"History is the study of change, and change is the only constant in human affairs"

Otto Friedrich, Writer

"We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow"

Fulton Oursler, Writer

"Failure is only postponed success, as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory"

Herbert Kaufman, Writer

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue"

Voltaire, Writer

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well"

Voltaire, Writer

"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion"

Voltaire, Writer

"To succeed in the world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered"

Voltaire, Writer

"Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him"

Voltaire, Writer

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge"

Voltaire, Writer

"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well"

Voltaire, Writer

"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"Before all else, be armed"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

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