Miscellaneous Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

99,217 Miscellaneous Quotes
“Love is a hole in the heart.”
Ben Hecht Quotes
“Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.”
Bill Stern Quotes
“She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.”
Charles Lamb Quotes
“In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.”
Edward O. Wilson Quotes
“Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.”
Escher Quotes
“The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.”
Gamel Abdel Nasser Quotes
“Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.”
Gene Wolfe Quotes
“What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.”
Havelock Ellis Quotes
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
J. K. Galbraith Quotes
“It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The Oracle.”
Baltasar Gracian Quotes
“Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - Selected Essays.”
D. H. Lawrence Quotes
“I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - My Summer in a Garden.”
Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
“Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.”
Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
“The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.”
Stanislaw Lec Quotes
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
John Powell Quotes
“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. - From a College Window.”
A. C. Benson Quotes
“The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. - The House of Gold.”
Bede Jarrett Quotes
“All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.”
Oscar W. Firkins Quotes
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
Baruch Spinoza Quotes
“To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on Life.”
Alexis Carrel Quotes
“A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?”
Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
“It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.”
Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes
“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.”
Charles Buxton Quotes
“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.”
Archibishop Of Canterbury Quotes
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