Best Quotes Around the World

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

I’m half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I’d be in a hell of a mess!