No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
During the games of the Circus, he had, imprudently or designedly, performed the manumission of a slave in the presence of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
We need to transcend our thoughts and desires to truly understand philosophy and the universe as a whole. However, in our everyday… — Henry Chang Copy Share Image
I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts. — Nadia Giosia Copy Share Image
Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
... on the right occasion a bold choice of opening can unnerve even the most steely opponent. — Neil McDonald Copy Share Image
One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself. — Kenya Hara Copy Share Image
I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz. — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
When you're outside in those elements, there's something out there that takes it out of you, so you work real hard. It… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for,… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I don't have a role model, but I certainly have always enjoyed Neil Young. I had the great pleasure and opportunity to… — Kevin Shields Copy Share Image
Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
