Recently Added Quotes |
Subject |
Quote |
Author |
| Abortion |
"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." |
Florynce Kennedy |
| Abortion |
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." |
Mother Teresa |
| Adventure |
"Never start in Vegas. Do your liver and your wallet a favor." |
George Clooney |
| Adventure |
"Register at a hotel under a pseudonym, and then rent two convertibles - a Porsche and a green Cadillac - so you can switch cars when things start to go bad. Be sure to launch one of these cars off a steep hill." |
Hunter S. Thompson |
| Adventure |
"Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife." |
Hunter S. Thompson |
| Adversity |
"When life gives you urine, make urinade." |
Anonymous |
| Adversity |
"The darkest hour is only sixty minutes." |
Anonymous |
| Adversity |
"A rough road leads to the stars." |
Anonymous |
| Adversity |
"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others." |
Ambrose Bierce |
| Adversity |
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." |
Albert Einstein |
| Adversity |
"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity." |
Albert Einstein |
| Adversity |
"Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment." |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
| Adversity |
"The difficult can be done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer." |
Army Corp of Engineers |
| Adversity |
"As we advanced in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed." |
Vincent van Gogh |
| Adversity |
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Adversity |
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." |
Abraham Maslow |
| Adversity |
"For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." |
Henry Louis Mencken |
| Adversity |
"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast." |
Alfred A. Montapert |
| Adversity |
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Adversity |
"You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures." |
Charles C. Noble |
| Adversity |
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." |
African Proverb |
| Adversity |
I know perfectly well that I don't want to do anything; to do something is to create existence - and there's quite enough existence as it is. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Adversity |
"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May." |
William Shakespeare |
| Adversity |
"Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it." |
Steven V. Thulon |
| Advertising |
"The secret tis to know your customer. Segment your target as tightly as possible. Determine exactly who your customers are, both demographically and psychographically. Match your customer with your medium. Choose only those media that reach your potential customers, and no others. Reaching anyone else is waste." |
Robert Grede |
| Advertising |
"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals." |
David Ogilvy |
| Advice |
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
| Advice |
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast or of one thing too exclusively. |
Voltaire |
| Afterlife |
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Aging |
"Grow graceful, growing old." |
Anonymous |
| Aging |
"When at last we are sure / You’ve been properly pilled, / Then a few paper forms / Must be properly filled / So that you and your heirs / May be properly billed." |
Theodor Seuss Geisel |
| Aging |
"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it." |
W. Somerset Maugham |
| Alcohol |
"I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink." |
Sir Richard Burton |
| Alcohol |
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." |
Sir Winston Churchill |
| Alcohol |
"I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me." |
Sir Winston Churchill |
| Alcohol |
"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food." |
W. C. Fields |
| Alcohol |
"A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her." |
W. C. Fields |
| Alcohol |
"O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth..." |
John Keats |
| Alcohol |
"My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health." |
Robert E. Lee |
| Alcohol |
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss." |
Lazarus Long |
| Alcohol |
"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." |
Herman Melville |
| Alcohol |
"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker." |
Ogden Nash |
| Alcohol |
"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Alcohol |
"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." |
George Bernard Shaw |
| Alcohol |
"Ether is the perfect drug for Las Vegas. In this town they love a drunk. Fresh meat." |
Hunter S. Thompson |
| Ambition |
"What is too sublime for you, seek not, into things beyond your strength search not." |
Bible |
| Ambition |
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." |
Michelangelo Buonarroti |
| Ambition |
"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." |
Michelangelo Buonarroti |
| Ambition |
"It is never to late to be what you might have been." |
George Eliot |
| Ambition |
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
| Ambition |
"Hitch your wagon to a star." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Ambition |
"I have not yet begun to fight!" |
John Paul Jones |
| Ambition |
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Ambition |
"I told each dancer that when it was easy, it had probably been done before, probably many times. I explained that only when it was so hard that it was nearly impossible were we perhaps close to getting something unique and extraordinary." |
Howard Schatz |
| Ambition |
"Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels." |
William Shakespeare |
| Ambition |
"Oh, that. I just do that for the extra money, and to satisfy my male need to kill and win." |
Charlie Sheen |
| Ambition |
"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great." |
Mark Twain |
| Ambition |
to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will." |
Kenneth Tynan |
| America |
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below." |
Joseph Addison |
| America |
"Americans care more for the lives of their pets than they do for the lives of the Palestianians." |
Anonymous |
| America |
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." |
Aristotle |
| America |
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." |
Albert Einstein |
| America |
"An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind." |
Kahlil Gibran |
| America |
"Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others." |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| America |
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." |
Victor Hugo |
| America |
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." |
Aldous Huxley |
| America |
"Despite the guarantee of free speech (and, thus, freedom of ideas), Americans have never become fully comfortable with the concept that ideas alone are not cause for dicrimination, either legal or contractual." |
Christopher Lampton |
| America |
"In America, Jesus and germs are everywhere." |
Arthur Lotti |
| America |
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." |
Henry Louis Mencken |
| America |
"An organization that is strong and stable and is ready to commit time, money, and patience will be more apt to reap rewards than the quick-hitting opportunist." |
Richard Miller |
| America |
"I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician." |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| America |
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." |
Joseph Muchemi |
| America |
"In music the passions enjoy themselves." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| America |
"If Goethe is a transposed painter and Schiller a transposed orator, then Wagner is a transposed actor." |
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| America |
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." |
Plato |
| America |
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." |
Dan Rather |
| America |
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." |
John D. Rockefeller |
| America |
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
| America |
"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living." |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| America |
"If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be." |
The Marquis de Sade |
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