Great Saying By Great Authors Quotes
865 Great Saying By Great Authors quotes by 379 unique authors
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
— Aristotle
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
— Honore de Balzac
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied…
— David Bailey
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You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long…
— James A. Baldwin
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The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
— Tony Benn
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
— Georges Bernanos
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held…
— Robert Browning
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
— Charles Bukowski
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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
— Anthony Burgess
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits…
— Louisa May Alcott
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
— Samuel Butler
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person…
— Albert Camus
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
— Thomas Carlyle
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
— Unknown Author
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When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
— Laozi
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Form ever follows function.
— Louis Sullivan
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The world is his who has money to go over it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
— John Milton
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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
— Juvenal
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
— William Shakespeare
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