Quote (#492)

Tears are the silent
language of grief.
- Voltaire

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience
of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
- Isaac D Israeli (1766–1848)

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"It has always been the prerogative of children
and half-wits to point out that the emperor has
no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit,
and the emperor remains an emperor."
- Neil Gaiman

"To err is human; to
forgive, infrequent."
- Franklin P. Adams

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is
the product of reason and calculation."
- Charles Baudelaire

Quotes

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and
privilege of the learned. A widely- read
man never quotes accurately, for the rather
obvious reason that he has read too widely."
- Hesketh Pearson

"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought,
and then be welcomed only for some propriety of
felicity justifying the intrusion."
- Robert Chapman

All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

"God, I can push the grass apart
and lay my finger on Thy heart."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"A little government and a little luck
are necessary in life, but only a fool
trusts either of them."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"When you encounter seemingly good
advice that contradicts other seemingly
good advice, ignore them both."
- Al Franken