Recently Added Quotes |
Subject |
Quote |
Author |
Deceit |
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." |
Claude Rains |
Life |
"I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots." |
David Rakoff |
Youth |
"Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young." |
David Rakoff |
Human Rights |
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)." |
Ayn Rand |
Friends |
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." |
G. Randolf |
America |
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." |
Dan Rather |
Courage |
"Courage." |
Dan Rather |
Music |
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." |
Dan Rather |
Men |
"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." |
Nancy Reagan |
Women |
"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." |
Nancy Reagan |
Courage |
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." |
Ambrose Redmoon |
Vices |
"I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth." |
Oliver Reed |
Science |
"...scientific theorey is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena." |
Wilhelm Reich |
Laziness |
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." |
Jules Renard |
Art / Artists |
"All great art is abstract." |
Jean Renoir |
Humor |
"There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join." |
Agnes Repplier |
Writing |
The twentieth is the era of the journalist." |
James Reston |
Death |
"So little done, so much to do." |
Cecil Rhodes |
Murder |
"So little done, so much to do." |
Cecil Rhodes |
Violence |
"With the idea of defilement we enter the realm of terror." |
Paul Ricoeur |
Criticism |
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
Emotions |
what work these conditions are doing inside you?" |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
Emotions |
hear our astonished emotions living." |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
Femininity |
the female human being." |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
Childhood / Children |
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." |
Joan Rivers |
Family |
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." |
Joan Rivers |
Family |
"Every baby needs a lap." |
Henry Robin |
Voting |
"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other." |
James Harvey Robinson |
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 |
Appearances |
"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Boredom |
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Discussion |
"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Discussion |
"Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Emotions |
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Evil |
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Excellence |
"Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Luck |
"We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Men |
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Quarrel |
"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Strength |
"We all have the strength to endure the misfortunes of others." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Vices |
"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Vices |
"Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
War |
"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
Wit |
"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so." |
François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld |
America |
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." |
John D. Rockefeller |
Business |
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." |
John D. Rockefeller |
Religion |
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." |
John D. Rockefeller |
Sin |
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." |
John D. Rockefeller |
Happiness |
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." |
Andrew A. Rooney |
Ambition |
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
America |
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Dreams / Dreamers |
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Justice |
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Love |
"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Conservatives |
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Fear |
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Integrity |
"If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time." |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Punctuality |
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm." |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Rules |
"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are." |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Death |
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Murder |
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Politicians |
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Punctuality |
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Risk |
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat" |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Success |
"It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well." |
Joseph Ross |
Death |
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." |
Jean Rostand |
Murder |
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." |
Jean Rostand |
Success |
"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people." |
Leo Rosten |
America |
"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living." |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Censorship |
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Freedom |
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Justice |
"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living." |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Risk |
"Everyone has the right to risk their own life in order to save it." |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Education |
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." |
Lee Rudolph |
Beauty |
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." |
John Ruskin |
Life |
"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close." |
John Ruskin |
Boredom |
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." |
Bertrand Arthur William Russell |
Conformism |
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." |
Bertrand Arthur William Russell |
Doubt |
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." |
Bertrand Arthur William Russell |
Experience |
"The stuff of which the world of our experience is composed is, in my belief, neither mind nor matter, but something more primitive than either. Both mind ands matter seem to be composite, and the stuff of which they are compounded lies in a sense between the two, in a sense above them both, like a common ancestor." |
Bertrand Arthur William Russell |
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