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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any
plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it
as the most important subject which we as a people may be
engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate
education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
- Abraham Lincoln

The most exhausting thing
in life is being insincere.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A democracy is more than a form of government;
it is primarily a mode of associated living,
of conjoint communicated experiences.
- John Dewey

"Life without liberty is
like a body without spirit."
- Kahlil Gibran

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the
golden tree of life springs ever green."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotaria - Favorites

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds
one in its net of wonder forever."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau

"The reverse side also has a reverse side."
- Japanese Proverb

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Certain flaws are necessary for
the whole. It would seem strange
if old friends lacked certain quirks.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to
find disordered minds; our planet is
the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
(I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotaria - Favorites

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it
is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes,
and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
--Francis Quarles

Things are more like they are
now than they have ever been.
- Gerald R. Ford

"I feel we are all islands - in a common sea."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"I am a deeply superficial person."
- Andy Warhol

"First and last, what is demanded
of genius is love of truth."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The world is not beautiful,
therefore it is."
- Kino no Tabi

Quotes

"If government were a product,
selling it would be illegal."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"I'd never been in play long enough for
the flowers to die in the dressing room."
- Mercedes McCambridge

"I do not fear computers.
I fear the lack of them."
- Isaac Asimov

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development,
and attaches her curse on all inaction."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"All art is but imitation of nature."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"A hen is only an egg's way
of making another egg."
- Samuel Butler

Quotaria

"What is important in life is life,
and not the result of life."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed
only to those who own one."
- AJ Liebling

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it
is necessary that at least once in your life
you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
- Rene Descartes

"You're never too old
to become younger."
- Mae West

Fate is not an eagle,
it creeps like a rat.
- Elizabeth Bowen

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction,
for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quotaria

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm kind of jealous of the
life I'm supposedly leading.
- Zach Braff

Nothing is as simple as
we hope it will be.
- Jim Horning

If the human mind was simple
enough to understand, we'd be
too simple to understand it.
- Emerson Pugh

All truths are easy to understand once they are
discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei

Curious things, habits.
People themselves never
knew they had them.
- Agatha Christie

Quotes - Oneliners

"A Hospital is no place to be sick."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We are the hero of our own story."
- Mary McCarthy

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks
- John Luly

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude
- Karl Barth

Quotes

"Be faithful to that which
exists within yourself."
- Andre Gide

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't
the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."
- Robert Benchley

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It's not a matter of whether or not
someone's watching over you. It's just
a question of their intentions."
- Randy K. Milholland

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them
behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except
a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that
once our eyes watered."
- Tom Stoppard

"There are 350 varieties of shark,
not counting loan and pool."
L. M. Boyd

Quotes

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed,
but win out in the end because they've stayed true to
their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
- Kevin Costner

None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It's the good girls who keep diaries;
the bad girls never have the time."
- Tallulah Bankhead

"The truth that makes men free is for the most
part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
- Herbert Agar

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only becuase
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
- Eric Blair (George Orwell)

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature
does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Quotes - Oneliner

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
- Elbert Hubbard

It's always darkest before it goes pitch black.
- Connie Winkler

"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical."
- Yogi Berra

The only paradise is paradise lost.
- Marcel Proust

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
- Pietro Mascagni