Famous quotes by Writers

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Let each become all that he was created capable of being"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"If there be no enemy, there's no fight. If no fight, no victory, and if no victory there is no crown"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for our duties and convictions, death does not matter if one dies for those one loves – for his country and for others dear to him"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"On this battlefield, man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather"

John Ruskin, Writer

"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth"

John Ruskin, Writer

"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness"

John Ruskin, Writer

"I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility"

John Ruskin, Writer

"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Books, the children of the brain"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager'"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

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