Quodid The Ultimate Quotation Repository

All Quotes

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

—Pythagoras

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

—Michael Masser and Linda Creed

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

—William Blake

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

—Georges Rouault

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

—Thomas Jefferson

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.

—Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

—Lady Bird Johnson

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

—Maxine Hong Kingston

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental.

—Jeff Melvoin

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

People don't believe what you tell them./ They rarely believe what you show them./ They often believe what their friends tell them./ They always believe what they tell themselves./

—Seth Godin

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

You suffer a lot more hiding something than if you face up to it.

—Alexander Woo

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.

—Stephanie Klein

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

—Aphra Behn

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

—W. S. Gilbert

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote