Quotes by Writers - Page 17

It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.
La Rochefoucauld
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
Cursed Mammon be when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!
Goethe
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself all your annoying habits are gone!
Merrill Markoe
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Oliver Goldsmith
It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.
Frank A. Clark
We must master our good fortune or it will master us.
Publilius Syrus
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracián
Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding better those who push forward who employ their enterprise who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck and to effectively gain her favor.
Baltasar Gracián
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
Chuang-tzu
Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire
Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.
François de La Rochefoucauld
To love her was a liberal education.
Richard Steele
The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.
La Rochefoucauld
If we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
No one can do me any good by loving me I have more love than I need or could do any good with but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
John Ruskin
Love makes of the wisest man a fool and of the most foolish woman a sage.
Moritz G. Saphir
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I no longer cared about survival - I merely loved.
Loren Eiseley
I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.
George Sanders
You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.
Roseanne Barr
We never get sick of each other. That's how sick we are.
Roseanne Barr
If love is the answer could you rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.
Red Skelton
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner
To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c'est etre seul).
Jean Rostand
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
Aldous Huxley
Oh! Let us never never doubt What nobody is sure about.
Hilaire Belloc
The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man.
Hilaire Belloc
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Eduardo Galeano
A novel is a static thing that one moves through a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
Kenneth Tynan
The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.
Silas W. Mitchell
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.
Joseph Roux
The love we give away is the only one we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.
George Sand
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
La Rochefoucauld
Before strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.
La Rochefoucauld
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
Sir Arthur Helps
A useless life is an early death.
Goethe
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel Johnson
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
If love is the answer could you please rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer - to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.
Kenneth Tynan
We're all in this together - by ourselves.
Lily Tomlin
At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction.
Aldous Huxley
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
Goethe
We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
Aldous Huxley
Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson
The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
Samuel Johnson