Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: politics humor nations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. —William J. H. Boetcker More about this quote Tags: relationships ethics morality respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a dangerous business going out your front door. —J. R. R. Tolkien More about this quote Tags: life risk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. —Benjamin Jowett More about this quote Tags: love life mistakes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. —Charles M. Schulz More about this quote Tags: life reality drudgery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. —Rita Rudner More about this quote Tags: humor psychology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. —Edwin P. Whipple More about this quote Tags: memory explanation quotations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. —Ian Fleming More about this quote Tags: life Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can’t remember? The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn’t bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights? —Matthew Quick in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock More about this quote Tags: life history mind memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ideas shape the course of history. —John Maynard Keynes More about this quote Tags: history ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is only one of many passions. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: love passion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: life sadness misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: silence communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. —Henny Youngman More about this quote Tags: humor drinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one. —George Meany More about this quote Tags: money plumbers ingenuity resourcefulness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email