Quotes by Writers - Page 10

Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.
Joseph Roux
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
Dylan Thomas
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
Goethe
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire
Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.
Goethe
Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.
Oliver Goldsmith
Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.
Charles Yost
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
Publilius Syrus
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
The very pink of perfection.
Oliver Goldsmith
If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
La Rochefoucauld
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to not in an exemption from suffering.
Francois de Fenelon
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
John Adams
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley
Patience is the art of hoping.
Vauvenargues
There are no short cuts to Heaven only the ordinary way of ordinary things.
Vincent McNabb
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed half the problems of bed are solved.
Peter Ustinov
My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex she objects.
Les Dawson
Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.
Patrick Campbell
Weak people cannot be sincere.
La Rochefoucauld
Hands have not tears to flow.
Dylan Thomas
The logic of the heart is absurd.
Julie de Lespinasse
From the solitude of the wood (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
Loren Eiseley
If we resist our passions it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.
La Rochefoucauld
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
Insanity is hereditary - you can get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy geography natural history and naval architecture navigation commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting poetry music architecture statuary tapestry and porcelain.
John Adams
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin
People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.
Wyndham Lewis
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Syrus
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. Some fear them but they fear everyone.
Jean Pierre Camus
Fear could never make a virtue.
Voltaire
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard
I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.
Roseanne Barr
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
Baltasar Gracián
You can't be envious and happy at the same time.
Frank Tyger
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
François de La Rochefoucauld
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.
Joseph Roux
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years and that too with surprising strides.
George Sand
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson
We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.
Alec Waugh
I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.
Kurt Vonnegut
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
Samuel Johnson
We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us.
François Rabelais
Let us accept truth even when it surprises us and alters our views.
George Sand
The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
A.S. Byatt
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours kindle it at home communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
H.G.Wells
A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Elbert Hubbard
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand
Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
Sebastien Chamfort
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire