Famous quotes by Writers

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"When we build, let us think that we build for ever"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people"

Thomas Mann, Writer

Thomas Mann

"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

H. C. Andersen

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

William Arthur Ward

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

Rudyard Kipling

"Everything begins with an idea"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

Earl Nightingale

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

Rita Mae Brown

"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Precaution is better than cure"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The youth is the hope of our future"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

William S. Burroughs

"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows"

Ralph Marston, Writer

Ralph Marston

"To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience"

Eli Khamarov, Writer

Eli Khamarov

"Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly"

Irene Peter, Writer

"Where words fail, tears can speak"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

H. C. Andersen

"One is not born, but rather becomes a woman"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

Simone de Beauvoir

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station"

William Gibson, Writer

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

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