All Quotes and Proverbs

"The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Dreams and Desires

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

Abraham Lincoln

Time and Passing

"The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number."

Alexis Carrel

Intellect, Judgement

Science and Technology

"The best way out is always through."

Robert Lee Frost

Various

"The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. "

Gene Fowler

Art and Culture

Success and Fame

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Helen Keller

Joy and Sadness

"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way."

Josh Billings

Wisdom and Stupidity

"The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right."

Henry David Thoreau

Defeates and Mistakes

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Mahatma Gandhi

Work and Laziness

"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires."

Dorothy Parker

Family and Loneliness

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Alan Key

Time and Passing

Various

"The better I know men... the more I like dogs!"

Sacha Guitry

Human

Nature and Animals

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship and Hostility

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Friendship and Hostility

God and Religion

"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter."

Winston Churchill

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Family and Loneliness

"The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."

Deborah Tannen

Defeates and Mistakes

Egoism

"The blood of Christians is seed of Christianity."

Tertullian

God and Religion

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

Henry David Thoreau

Nature and Animals

"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Human

Love

"The Book of History is the Bible of Irony."

George Saintsbury

History and Nations

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

Robert Lee Frost

Intellect, Judgement

Work and Laziness

"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courage and Fear

"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."

Quentin Crisp

Happiness

History and Nations

"The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters."

Robert Morley

History and Nations

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy."

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Authority, Government

Various

"The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light."

George Bernard Shaw "The Doctor's Dilemma"

Truth and Falsity

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

Rabindranath Tagore

Nature and Animals

Time and Passing

"The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound."

Marshall McLuhan "Understanding Media"

Science and Technology

Various

"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."

Daniel J. Boorstin "The Image"

Success and Fame

"The center of every man's existence is a dream."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Dreams and Desires

"The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton "The Victorian Age in Literature"

Art and Culture

"The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together."

Eric Hoffer

Education

"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."

Margaret Fuller

Family and Loneliness

"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Life and Death

Success and Fame

"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment."

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Defeates and Mistakes

Happiness

"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."

James A. Garfield

Authority, Government

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

"The Child is father of the Man."

William Wordsworth

Youth and Age

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton "What's Wrong with the World"

God and Religion

"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."

Desmond Morris "The Human Zoo"

Normality and Madness

Various

"The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage."

Henry David Thoreau

Human

Various

"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky "A Writer's Diary"

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Youth and Age

"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter."

William Somerset Maugham "The Summing Up"

Defeates and Mistakes

Human

Success and Fame

"The complete is more than the sum of its pieces."

Aristotle

Various

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness

Law and Crime

"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."

Henry Kissinger

Peace and War

"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."

Flip Wilson

Life and Death

Various