Quotes by Authors - Page 171

Something must happen!
Heinrich Böll
To know what has to be done then do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Sir William Osier
Once a gentleman always a gentleman.
Charles Dickens
A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
Anonymous
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
Victor Hugo
Gift like genius I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Ellice Hopkins
Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Genius is only great patience.
Anonymous
Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
Ernest Dimnet
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
V.S. Pritchett
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W.H. Auden
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
The parting genius is with sighing sent.
Anonymous
The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Anonymous
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
Anonymous
I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
Bobby Layne
The game isn't over until it's over.
Yogi Berra
Poetry is a mug's game.
T.S Eliot
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Anonymous
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.
Anonymous
Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
Bayard Taylor
There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.
Alfred Mercier
When all else is lost the future still remains.
Christian Nestell Bovee
I'm a one-drink woman two at the most three I'm under the table four I'm under the host.
Anonymous
Everybody should believe in something I believe I'll have another drink.
Anonymous
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Anonymous
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
T. G. Appleton
Madam I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney Smith
As the psychiatrist said to the cannibal at the end of a session: "Your problem is easy you're just fed up with people."
Anonymous
With friends like you - who needs enemas.
Anonymous
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh
My friend thought he was not gonna make it. Then he started thinking positive. Now he's positive he's not gonna make it.
Brother Sammy Shore
Friends are folks who excuse you when you have made a fool of yourself.
Anonymous
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who come into a room and say "Here I am!" and those who come in and say "Oh there you are."
Anonymous
She is one of my best friends. Why I've known her ever since we were the same age.
Galen Cooper
One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends and if they seem okay then you're the one.
Ann Landers
Great friendship is never without anxiety.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
The company makes the feast.
Anonymous
In real friendship the judgment the genius the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
Maria Edgeworth
In meeting again after a separation acquaintances ask after our outward life friends after our inner life.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.
Oscar W. Firkins
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.
Anonymous
I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self.
Edith Wharton
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller
We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter. ... It's the way friends make love to one another.
Annie Gottlieb
I can trust my friends. ... These people force me to examine myself encourage me to grow.
Cher
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
Sarah Ellis
Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B.C. Forbes
Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Kathleen Norris
A real friend helps us think our best thoughts do our noblest deeds be our finest selves.
Anonymous
Friendship needs no words-it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjöld
A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson