Quotes by Writers - Page 5

The future is the shape of things to come.
H.G.Wells
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
Beilby Porteous
There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
Alec Waugh
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
Bernard de Fontenelle
The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson
If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Samuel Johnson
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
Fashion exists for women with no taste etiquette for people with no breeding.
Queen Marie of Rumania
The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
Voltaire
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The crowning blessing of life - to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
S. C. Tallentyre
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle
Superiority is always detested.
Baltasar Gracián
He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith
I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition.
Voltaire
Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
Jean Paul Richter
I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
Frank A. Clark
Fame has only the span of the day they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
Ouida
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
Joseph Roux
Success produces success just as money produces money.
Nicolas de Chamfort
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel Johnson
If I had known what it would be like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin
We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.
François de La Rochefoucauld
I know there will be spring as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
Olive Schreiner
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
Robert W. Service
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
Cardinal de Retz
Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.
Elbert Hubbard
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
Charles Caleb Colton
No one reaches a high position without daring.
Publilius Syrus
The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
Vauvenargues
Never having been able to succeed in the world he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
Voltaire
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Montesquieu had the style of a genius Buffon the genius of style.
Baron Grimm
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright
player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.
John Adams
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.
Elbert Hubbard
Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying and when God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.
James Howell
God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.
John Ruskin
Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway.
Fredrick Buechner
Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.
Alan Watts
I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.
François Rabelais
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Samuel Johnson
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracián
A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
A.P. Herbert
Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul Richter
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson
Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn