Recently Added Quotes |
Subject |
Quote |
Author |
| Femininity |
"The Woman does not exist." |
Jacques Lacan |
| Love |
"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?" |
Jacques Lacan |
| Censorship |
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." |
Marquis de Lafayette |
| Freedom |
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." |
Marquis de Lafayette |
| Kindness |
"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness." |
The Dalai Lama |
| Religion |
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." |
The Dalai Lama |
| Seclusion |
"Spend some time alone every day." |
The Dalai Lama |
| Sin |
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." |
The Dalai Lama |
| 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 |
| Life |
"Life is first boredom, then fear." |
Philip Larkin |
| Appearances |
"I have a face like the behind of an elephant." |
Charles Laughton |
| Fame |
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses us, does us honour." |
The Comte de Lautréamont |
| Happiness |
"Generosity enjoys the happiness of others, as though it were responsible for it." |
The Comte de Lautréamont |
| Sleep |
"Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction." |
The Comte de Lautréamont |
| Authority |
"We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority." |
D.H. Lawrence |
| Censorship |
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." |
Emma Lazarus |
| Freedom |
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." |
Emma Lazarus |
| Hatred |
"Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them." |
Denis Leary |
| Patience |
"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." |
Georges Louis Leclerc |
| 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 |
| Sex |
"Making love to a woman is like buying real estate: location, location, location." |
Carol Leifer |
| Love |
"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic." |
Alphonse de Lemartine |
| Life |
"Life is what happens when you are making other plans." |
John Lennon |
| Death |
"La commedia è finita. [The comedy is ended.]" |
Ruggero Leoncavallo |
| Murder |
"La commedia è finita. [The comedy is ended.]" |
Ruggero Leoncavallo |
| Voting |
"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all." |
Bernard Levin |
| Experience |
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" |
Clive Staples Lewis |
| Imagination |
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." |
Clive Staples Lewis |
| Religion |
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning." |
Clive Staples Lewis |
| Religion |
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." |
Clive Staples Lewis |
| Sin |
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning." |
Clive Staples Lewis |
| Sin |
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." |
Clive Staples Lewis |
| Time |
"Man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels." |
Clive Staples Lewis |
| Sorrow |
"There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun." |
Gerd de Ley |
| Fear |
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." |
G. Gordon Liddy |
| World |
"High-rises are the Pyramids of our time." |
William Lim |
| 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 |
| Democracy |
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Excellence |
"Whatever you are, be a good one." |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Food |
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Future |
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Future |
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Human Rights |
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Preparation |
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Success |
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." |
Abraham Lincoln |
| Perseverance |
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." |
Vince Lombardi |
| Success |
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." |
Vince Lombardi |
| Alcohol |
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss." |
Lazarus Long |
| Sorrow |
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| America |
"In America, Jesus and germs are everywhere." |
Arthur Lotti |
| Childhood / Children |
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." |
Arthur Lotti |
| Deceit |
"Bullshitting is lying convincingly and with a winning smile." |
Arthur Lotti |
| Family |
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." |
Arthur Lotti |
| Honesty |
"I find it hard living in a day and age where people are unwilling to accept who they really are." |
Matthew Lotti |
| Imagination |
"The more vivid your imagination, the more dangerous the world becomes." |
Matthew Lotti |
| Success |
"In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts." |
Matthew Lotti |
| Truth |
"I find it hard living in a day and age where people are unwilling to accept who they really are." |
Matthew Lotti |
| World |
"Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it." |
Matthew Lotti |
| Common Sense |
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." |
John Luther |
| Wisdom |
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." |
John Luther |
| Violence |
"Nothing good ever comes of violence." |
Martin Luther |
| Foolishness |
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." |
Paul Lutus |
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