Quotes by Writers - Page 16

Men argue nature acts.
Voltaire
He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale.
Samuel Johnson
Father calls me William sister calls me Will Mother calls me Willie but the fellows call me Bill!
Eugene Field
Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
Goethe
Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.
Samuel Johnson
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.
Vauvenargues
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.
Vauvenargues
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolò Machiavelli
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
John Ruskin
The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
Ouida
Happiness is in the taste and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like not from possessing what others like.
François de La Rochefoucauld
There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.
Hester Mundis
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no proof of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
H.G.Wells
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
Charles Caleb Colton
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan
When it is a question of money everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire
Money can't buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads but no brains.
Antoine de Rivarol
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Goethe
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Norman Douglas
We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.
La Rochefoucauld
At twenty a man is a peacock at thirty a lion at forty a camel at fifty a serpent at sixty a dog at seventy an ape at eighty nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracián
A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will it is reported raise her skirt to cover her face.
Raymond Mortimer
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson
The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
A feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
Goethe
Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly they don't have to sew buttons.
Heywood Broun
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
Samuel Johnson
For a single woman preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.
Elayne Boosler
If you ever leave me I'll go with you.
Rene Taylor
That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson
Everyone complains of his lack of memory but nobody of his want of judgement.
La Rochefoucauld
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
La Rochefoucauld
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
Jean Paul Richter
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
Voltaire
The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.
Denis Diderot
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Vauvenargues
If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
Goethe
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.
Arthur Young
Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees 'There is no cure for this disease.'
Hilaire Belloc
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
Arthur Adamov
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
Samuel Johnson
A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment but it is the better alternative.
Fannie Hurst
Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Elbert Hubbard
Marriages would in general be as happy and often more so if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.
Samuel Johnson
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson
Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson