Quote (#502)

"All life is a manifestation of the
spirit, the manifestation of love."
- Morihei Ueshiba

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We live in a rainbow of chaos."
- Paul Cezanne

"Beauty in art is often nothing
but ugliness subdued."
- Jean Rostand

"Music is moonlight in the
gloomy night of life."
- Jean Paul

Write injuries in dust,
benefits in marble.
- Benjamin Franklin

Quotes

"If there were in the world today any large number
of people who desired their own happiness more than
they desired the unhappiness of others, we could
have paradise in a few years."
- Bertrand Russell

A place for everything,
everything in its place.
- Benjamin Franklin

Good advice is something a man gives when
he is too old to set a bad example.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King

Personally, I don't think there's intelligent
life on other planets. Why should other planets
be any different from this one?
- Bob Monkhouse

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and
ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams,
the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
- Aldous Huxley

Quotes

"The better I get to know men, the
more I find myself loving dogs."
- Charles de Gaulle

"Discontent is the first
necessity of progress."
- Thomas A. Edison

"There is nothing so useless as
doing efficiently that which
should not be done at all."
- Peter Drucker

"You know that children are growing up when
they start asking questions that have answers."
- John J. Plomp

"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel
those of the present but neither see nor feel those of
the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes
without amendment, and frequently for the worse."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Cats are smarter than dogs.
You can't get eight cats to
pull a sled through snow."
- Jeff Valdez

Quotes

"Spring won't let me stay in this
house any longer! I must get out
and breathe the air deeply again."
- Gustav Mahler

"The only way to make a man
trustworthy is to trust him."
- Henry Stimson

Facts do not cease to exist
because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley

"Life is 10 percent what you make
it, and 90 percent how you take it."
- Irving Berlin

"At 20 years of age the will reigns,
at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment."
- Benjamin Franklin

"When the blameless and the
righteous die, the very gods
for vengeance cry."
– Vlad Taltos

Quotes

"Suburbia is where the developer
bulldozes out the trees, then
names the streets after them."
- Bill Vaughan

"Man never made any material as
resilient as the human spirit."
- Bern Williams

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

The difference between fiction and reality
is that fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy

Real children don't go hoppity-skip
unless they are on drugs
- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Before you embark on a journey
of revenge, dig two graves.
- Confucius

Quotes - Benjamin Franklin

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Glass, china and reputation are easily
cracked, and never well mended."
- Benjamin Franklin

"But in this world nothing can be said to
be certain, except death and taxes."
- Benjamin Franklin

Remember that time is money.
- Benjamin Franklin

"Three may keep a secret,
if two of them are dead."
- Benjamin Franklin

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
- Benjamin Franklin

Quotaria - Favorites

The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

"An investment in knowledge always
pays the best interest."
- Benjamin Franklin

"The scientific name for an animal that doesn't
either run from or fight its enemies is lunch."
- Michael Friedman

"Colors are the smiles of nature."
- Leigh Hunt

Humankind cannot stand
very much reality.
- TS Eliot

"Bad weather always looks
worse through a window."
- Tom Lehrer

Quotaria

Those who would give up essential liberty to
purchase a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered
America, that he ever mentioned it.
- Margot Asquith

How much easier it is to be
critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one
way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after
happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no
reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
- Edith Wharton

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings,
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
- Shelley

"When I meet a man I ask myself,
'Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?'"
- Rita Rudner

Quotaria - Oneliner

The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

"Courage is grace under pressure."
- Ernest Hemingway

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
- Kurt Vonnegut

"Change before you have to."
- Jack Welch

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
- Benjamin Franklin

Quotaria

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl
kills the first woman she meets and then teams up
with three complete strangers to kill again.
- Rick Polito

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from
their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened
her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
- Edmund Burke

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often
look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that
we do not see the ones which open for us."
-- Alexander Graham Bell

"A good conscience is
a continual Christmas."
- Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is really work unless you
would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie

The advantage of a bad memory is
that one enjoys several times the
same good things for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche