Best Quotes Around the World

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

When you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you’re hungry, we’ll feed you. If you’re homeless, we’ll house you. If you’re too poor to be sick, we’ll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.

I don’t write policy for my government.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year… unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Me and my brother get along super well. We’re, like, best friends. So we’ll stay up until, like, five just talking because we get along and, you know, it’s cool. And he respects my opinions, and I respect his, even if we don’t have the same opinions, but a lot of the time we do.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

We’re already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it’s not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others‘ company.

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.