Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.
W. Edward Brown
The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.
Jacob Getlar Smith
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.many versions exist: The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein, attributed
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention,A kingdom for a stage, princes to actAnd monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
William Shakespeare, Henry V (pr
Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo DaVinci
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G. K. Chesterton
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation.
Sir Winston Churchill
The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.
J.K. Rowling
For myself I am an optimistit does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.
We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.
Virginia Woolf
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.
One woman who managed to corner him, the story runs, said in a treacly gushing voice:Doesnt it thrill you, Mr. Churchill, to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?It is quite flattering, Mr. Churchill replied, but whenever I feel this way I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big.
I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Thou strange piece of wild nature!
Colley Cibber
I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction it was a misprint
Rodney Dangerfield
You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
Victor Hugo
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The further you progress, the higher the ideal of perfection toward which you strive rises.
Leo Tolstoy
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Every person has only one purpose: to find perfection in goodness. Therefore, only that knowledge is necessary which leads to this.
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
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