Umberto Eco, on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose." Quote #9586 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 I felt like poisoning a monk.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations Quote #4659 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Very little is needed to make a happy life.
David Reisman Quote #8171 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World" Quote #3987 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich...
W. Somerset Maugham Quote #23702 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing...
Ruth Smeltzer Quote #31700 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money,...
Juvenal Quote #29073 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in...
William Faulkner Quote #27493 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let...
Thomas Jefferson Quote #2995 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986 Quote #5457 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 An honor is not diminished for being shared.