Quotes by Writers - Page 18

This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit survive.
Robert W. Service
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Sebastien Chamfort
Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.
o.henry
I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson
If life was fair Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson
I know a man who gave up smoking drinking sex and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.
Johnny Carson
I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.
Red Skelton
When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.
E.P. Thompson
Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas
All men are born truthful and die liars.
Vauvenargues
In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
Samuel Johnson
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
Samuel Johnson
And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.
Oliver Goldsmith
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Antoine De Saint Exupery
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe
If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!
La Rochefoucauld
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.
Charles Yost
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles de Gaulle
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism pride hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Charles de Gaulle
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
Vauvenargues
It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquillity.
Samuel Johnson
The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.
François Rabelais
Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb Colton
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard
There are two kinds of statistics the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Rex Stout
Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
Norman Douglas
One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
Goethe
All human joys are swift of wing For heaven doth so allot it That when you get an easy thing You find you haven't got it.
Eugene Field
In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
La Rochefoucauld
Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.
Mme. De Puisieux
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard
Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation how to lose without regret how to acquire without meanness know how to replace in your heart by the happiness of those you love the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.
George Sand
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
La Rochefoucauld
A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
Norman Douglas
We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.
François de La Rochefoucauld
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
François de La Rochefoucauld
In making our decisions we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us.
Fulton Oursler
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
Vauvenargues
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
Vauvenargues
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
Aldous Huxley
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
Denis Diderot
I give myself sometimes admirable advice but I am incapable of taking it.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt.
La Rochefoucauld
Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Oliver Goldsmith
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Goethe