La Rochefoucauld Quote #17121 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) AD 39-65, The Civil War, bk. I, 128 Quote #1204 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 “If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.”
Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1 Quote #8232 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the...
Floyd Dell Quote #6699 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quote #26623 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Henry David Thoreau Quote #20462 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of...
Ken Keyes Quote #14955 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to...
Socrates, In "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said," ed. Robert Byrne, 1988 Quote #9235 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their...
Miyamoto Musashi Quote #14382 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote #33933 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to...