More quotations tagged with “world”
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
—Charles Baudelaire
If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go round.
—Christina Stead
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage.
—Fraser Tyler
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
—Lady Mary Worley Montagu
It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.
—James Hillman