Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932 Quote #1547 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of...
Elias Canetti Quote #26277 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else....
Scott Adams Quote #17016 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an...
Caesar Augustus, from Plutarch, Apothegms Quote #4560 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was...
James Russell Lowell Quote #20001 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade’s no easier...
Sallust, The War with Catiline Quote #4525 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is...
Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C. Quote #4338 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
Daniel Webster Quote #9689 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an...
Henry Fielding Quote #14651 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the...
J Tolkein Quote #32162 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling,...