“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Once you know yourself and what you can do, you become more daring towards realizing your dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the curious hunter-up of rare quotations... the young and struggling scribbler... — William Francis Henry King Copy Share Image
“It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest.” — Lauren Zimmerman Copy Share Image
If I''ve 8 hours to chop down a tree,I would spend 6 hours sharpening the axe. — Vinesh Copy Share Image
Quotes are quotes just words,so quotes can be just something little like this I like apples — MrAwesome Copy Share Image
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an… — Frances Brooke Copy Share Image
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband. — Clifford Odets Copy Share Image
“The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are …… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's better to just ignore what is happening around you than to think hard why it is happening to you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings… — William Feather Copy Share Image
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
“He turns again to the others. I dislike his talk; it goes against my grain to hear him speak so contemptuously of… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
“After the applause, he used the quotations book to make a more subtle point, about his reality distortion field. The quote he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or… — Jasper Siegel Seneschal Copy Share Image