Quotes by Writers - Page 4

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
La Rochefoucauld
If virtue were its own reward it would no longer be a human quality but supernatural.
Vauvenargues
There are few chaste women who are not tired of their trade.
La Rochefoucauld
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Olin Miller
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
Baltasar Gracián
When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.
La Rochefoucauld
Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.
Mavor Moore
How lovely are the portals of the night When stars come out to watch the daylight die.
Thomas Cole
There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times.
Voltaire
No one can bar the road to truth and to advance its cause I'm ready to accept even death.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When one has no design but to speak plain truth he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
Richard Steele
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Samuel Johnson
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time.
Baltasar Gracián
Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Robert W. Service
True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The more I see of other countries the more I love my own.
Mme. De Stael
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
Aldous Huxley
As the Spanish proverb says "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
As the Spanish proverb says 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
Arthur Helps
Incident piled on incident no more makes life than brick piled on brick makes a house.
Edith Ronald Mirrielees
If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus
I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
Fanny Fern
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
Time and I against any two.
Baltasar Gracián
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H.G.Wells
Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.
Baltasar Gracián
Great thoughts come from the heart.
Vauvenargues
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man because he has both enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.
J. P. DeCaussade
I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later she'll have to keep it.
Mark Beltaire
Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
Had I been chosen president again I am certain I could not have lived another year.
John Adams
The four most miserable years of my life . . .
John Adams
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
Samuel Johnson
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
Samuel Johnson
Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton
When shall we live if not now?
M.F.K. Fisher
I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.
Alan Watts
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
Samuel Johnson
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Samuel Johnson
This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
Alan Watts
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
Harriet Martineau
The past is one evil less and one memory more.
Elbert Hubbard
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Fulton Oursler
The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H.G.Wells
What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
Aldous Huxley
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
La Rochefoucauld
A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
Lord Dunsany