Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Quote #13280 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of...
Frederick L Collins Quote #26778 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 There are two types of people–those who come into a room and say, ‘Well,...
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity Quote #9182 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed:...
Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950) Quote #14457 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the...
Joseph Addison Quote #16147 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there...
Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940 Quote #9897 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Ludwig van Beethoven Quote #25395 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Music – The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends...
William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 3 scene 1 Quote #4867 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,If with his tongue...
John Dryden Quote #7652 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it...