Quodid The Ultimate Quotation Repository

All Quotes

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

—Cher

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

—Og Mandino

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

—William Cobbett

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

—Samuel Johnson

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

—Jane Austen

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

—Michel de Montaigne

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

—John Viscount Morley

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

—Mahatma Gandhi

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

—Norman Maclean

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

—Walt Whitman

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

—Sir Richard Steele

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

—Lillian Hellman

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

—Confucius

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man/
As modest stillness and humility;/
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,/
Then imitate the action of the tiger:/
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

—William Shakespeare

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote