Quotes by Writers - Page 3

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
Raymond Queneau
Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel that is as a symbol of reward and recognition in the last analysis of acceptance by one's fellowmen.
Otto Rank
Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty.
Voltaire
We work to become not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength his glory and his pleasure.
George Sand
If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.
Elbert Hubbard
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Aldous Huxley
Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.
Goethe
True eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.
La Rochefoucauld
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
Charles Caleb Colton
Our language one of our most precious natural resources deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands streams and whooping cranes.
James Lipton
Words are feminine deeds are masculine.
Baltasar Gracián
When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.
Goethe
Everyone hears only what he understands.
Goethe
You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.
Voltaire
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven.
Samuel Johnson
Fair words butter no parsnips.
John Clarke
A woman either loves or hates: she knows no medium.
Syrus
The society of women is the foundation of good manners.
Goethe
A woman is like your shadow follow her she flies fly from her she follows.
Sebastien Chamfort
Men know that women are an overmatch for them and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Samuel Johnson
One can find women who have never had a love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
La Rochefoucauld
Women are most adorable when they are afraid that's why they frighten so easily.
Ludwig Börne
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracián
Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
Aldous Huxley
All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
Lin Yutang
A modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Oliver Goldsmith
Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.
Kurt Vonnegut
In the sex-war thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said we have still to admit with Byron that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty deceit and revenge is set alight it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.
Cyril Connolly
What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.
La Rochefoucauld
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
Baltasar Gracián
Wisdom is only found in trudi.
Goethe
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracián
A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.
Baltasar Gracián
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
Goethe
Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Samuel Johnson
Victory - a matter of staying power.
Elbert Hubbard
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert Service
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson
We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
La Rochefoucauld
Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.
Niccolò Machiavelli
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep.
Aldous Huxley
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
François Rabelais
When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather.
Samuel Johnson
I'll fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade - A breath can make them as a breath has made - But a bold peasantry their country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplied.
Oliver Goldsmith
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
Samuel Johnson
No good man ever became suddenly rich.
Syrus
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
Charles Caleb Colton
Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
Jean Paul Richter
I'll fares the land to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson
Vice stirs up war virtue fights.
Vauvenargues
Good things when short are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracián
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Oliver Goldsmith
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
John Ruskin
When we can't dream any longer we die.
Emma Goldman
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.
Goethe