Quotes by Writers - Page 24

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .
Elbert Hubbard
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
Georges Duhamel
There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
The heart has always the pardoning power.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause not an individual. Keep it for intolerance injustice stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.
Olive Moore
He who thinks himself wise O heavens! is a great fool.
Voltaire
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.
François Rabelais
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
Goethe
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl Kraus
He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.
La Rochefoucauld
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
Samuel Johnson
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Cyril Connolly
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
La Rochefoucauld
It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise.
Jean Paul Richter
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
Samuel Johnson
We have here other fish to fry.
François Rabelais
A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire
Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Niccolò Machiavelli
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
François de La Rochefoucauld
O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
Samuel Johnson
There is no devil but fear.
Elbert Hubbard
Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.
Cardinal de Retz
A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Antoine de St. Exupery
Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared for their love is held by a chain of obligation which because of men's wickedness is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Niccolò Machiavelli
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
La Rochefoucauld
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracián
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days.
Lew Lehr
Insanity is hereditary you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family ... in another city.
George Burns
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.
Bel Kaufman
Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
Arthur Helps
Fame is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Voltaire
Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.
Moritz Saphir
Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.
Charles de Gaulle
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
Sir George Savile
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson
We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.
Aldous Huxley
Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes De Mille
Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.
George Sand
Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard
Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard