I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar WildeFriendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
Albert CamusWords are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul SartreFools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander PopeWhen befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin FranklinWhat we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen KellerGo to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark TwainMen always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar WildeA minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
John C. MaxwellThe rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
PlatoThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich NietzscheOne may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich NietzscheI’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsThere is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Marcus Tullius CiceroHe who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard ShawHaving nothing, nothing can he lose.
William ShakespeareAlways do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest HemingwayWhoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques RousseauConsistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar WildeI have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston ChurchillSome cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar WildeBooks that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel JohnsonIf Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
Will RogersA home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNever pray for justice, because you might get some.
Margaret AtwoodNothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.
Charlie ChaplinIt is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
Brian EnoA room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEverything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
ConfuciusYou must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma GandhiThe art is long, life is short.
HippocratesOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthurStep with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.
Dr. SeussLord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William ShakespeareAnything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.
EminemYour manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel JohnsonIt does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TolkienNixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Harry S. TrumanThere was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin FranklinStay hungry, stay foolish.
Steve JobsOf two evils, choose neither.
Charles SpurgeonLittera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.
Christopher HitchensThe price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston ChurchillThe single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard ShawPolitics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston ChurchillBetter than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
BuddhaI only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
SocratesThe words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao TzuYou shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous HuxleyYou can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
Winston ChurchillI never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
Alexander HamiltonSo live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William ShakespeareMoney doesn’t talk, it swears.
Bob DylanWho sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da VinciPeople see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘
Kevin HartA lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William ShakespeareThey who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe