Quotes by Writers - Page 15

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
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Vauvenargues
Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
Samuel Johnson
To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.
Samuel Johnson
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Publilius Syrus
I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
Walter Raleigh
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare but then I thought Why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Spike Milligan
I'd like to tell you some jokes now but you'd only laugh.
Milton Berle
Time is an illusion-to orators.
Elbert Hubbard
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
Elbert Hubbard
It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.
Raymond Radiguet
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Nicolas de Chamfort
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
Publilius Syrus
Know what you want to do hold the thought firmly and do every day what should be done and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
Elbert Hubbard
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton
Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.
Robert W. Service
If you want to kill time try working it to death.
Sam Levenson
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate" an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry and generally satisfy the most extensive desires if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence to be overrun with noxious plants or laid out for show rather than for use.
Samuel Johnson
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
If a person gives you his time he can give you no more precious gift.
Frank Tyger
Each day each hour an entire life.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Plain as a nose in a man's face.
François Rabelais
The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.
Roseanne Barr
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
John Adams
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.
Cyril Connolly
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort a little more patience would have achieved success. A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
Charles Caleb Colton
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
Robert W. Service
An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work by its very todayness is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
Cyril Connolly
A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable.
Cyril Connolly
If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
o.henry
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard
We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I gained one.
Voltaire
We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
Goethe
Nature abhors a vacuum.
François Rabelais
Nature has always had more force than education.
Voltaire
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Goethe
After rain comes fair weather.
James Howell
The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later she'll have to keep it.
Mark Beltaire
When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The unnatural - that too is natural.
Goethe