Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 Quote #5052 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as...
Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Quote #1059 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
John Oliver Hobbes Quote #16260 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote #19797 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Tryon Edwards Quote #27377 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends...
Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814 Quote #11542 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the...
Mary Wortley Montagu Quote #21547 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
Arthur Schopenhauer Quote #31517 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time...
Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933 Quote #2151 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take...
Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculptor Quote #12280 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.