Quotes by Authors - Page 41

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Alexander Chase
Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.
Thomas Fuller
Irrevocable as a haircut.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.
Salvadore Nasello
If it's me against 48 I feel sorry for the 48.
Margaret Thatcher
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
J.G. Holland
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
John Russell
A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne
A word to the wise is infuriating.
Anonymous
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
Joseph Heller
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.
Anonymous
Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.
Hermann Hesse
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Howard Ruff
Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
Anonymous
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
Thomas Jefferson
In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill
You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.
Frank Leahy
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself.
Lord Chesterfield
Those who live are those who fight.
Victor Hugo
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Thomas Fuller
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Tennessee Williams
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Thomas Fuller
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Pearl Buck
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare confess it to themselves.
Anonymous
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
Thomas Fuller
Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.
Sir Francis Bacon
God bears with the wicked but not forever.
Miguel de Cervantes
We all have flaws and mine is being wicked.
James Thurber
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them.
T.S Eliot
When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
W.H. Auden
Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
Rabindranath Tagore
April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
T.S Eliot
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
Thomas Fuller
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller
As a rule man is a fool When it's hot he wants it cool When it's cool he wants it hot Always wanting what is not.
Anonymous
One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his life-time for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
If you see yourself as prosperous you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up that is exactly what you will be.
Robert Collier
Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
It is good to have things that money can buy but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer
It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars to sail to an uncharted land to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
True abundance is not about gathering more things it's about touching the place in us that is connected to the divine source of abundance so that we know what we need in the moment will be provided.
Mary Manin Morrissey
In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
Elizabeth Bowen
I wish to become rich so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little like those kind-hearted fat benevolent people do.
Mark Twain
The wealth of a nation consists not in its mass of material things but in its system. The natural resources of South America are not inferior to those of the United States but the wealth of the two regions is vastly different. The land of India is far richer than that of Japan but the comparative wealth of the two nations is reversed.
George Brockway
I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain
Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas Jerrold
Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
Thomas Fuller
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde