Quotes by Playwrights - Page 29

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.
Joseph Addison
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
Honoré de Balzac
Man appoints and God disappoints.
Cervantes
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
Jean Anouilh
Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Plautus
Life's objective is life itself.
Johann von Goethe
Your world is as big as you make it.
Georgia Douglas Johnson
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
Oscar Wilde
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel when I could be the artist?
J. C. F. von Schiller
Let us live while we are alive!
Johann von Goethe
Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann von Goethe
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West
If you cry "Forward " you must make plain in what direction to go.
Anton Chekhov
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!
Henrik Ibsen
A useless life is an early death.
Johann von Goethe
The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.
Arthur Adamov
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare
It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.
Sir Walter Scott
He who hesitates is last.
Mae West
Words gain credibility by deed.
Terence
Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
Molière
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
Johann von Goethe
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
We will not know unless we begin.
Howard Zinn
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
Johann von Goethe
If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
Johann von Goethe
If you want to do something do it!
Plautus
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Delay not to seize the hour!
Aeschylus
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Friedrich von Schiller
To make a fine gentleman several trades are required but chiefly a barber.
Oliver Goldsmith
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
Poetry is a mug's game.
T.S Eliot
I believe the future is only the past again entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
The ripest fruit first falls.
William Shakespeare
What is thine is mine and all mine is thine.
Plautus
Love me please I love you I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do I give up my whole self to it.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Friendship's a noble name 'tis love refined.
Susannah Centlivre
Of my friends I am the only one I have left.
Terence
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Euripides
I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
Johann von Goethe
Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
The lion is ashamed it's true when he hunts with the fox.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Who friendship with a knave hath made is judged a partner in the trade.
John Gay
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Miguel de Cervantes
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino
To throw away an honest friend is as it were to throw your life away.
Sophocles
Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
William Shakespeare
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you your own life than turn away a good friend.
Sophocles
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right but when I am a little in the wrong.
Sir Walter Scott