Famous miscellaneous quotations

   I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?  Nice Word by Leo Durocher

   Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.  Meaningful Quotation by Mark Twain, Autobiography, 1924

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.  Good Quote by W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

   Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.  Wise Phrase by Louis Céline, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932

   Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.  Wise Phrase by Mae West

   Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.  Famous Saying by François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

   You can never plan the future by the past.  Nice Word by Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly

   We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well.  Meaningful Quotation by Robert Louis Stevenson, Pulvis et umbra, 1888

   It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.  Good Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth, Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

   The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.  Wise Phrase by Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes

   Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.  Wise Phrase by Albert Einstein

   After all, the main question will be the opener: Hello, are you there? If the reply should turn out to be Yes, hello, we might want to stop there and think about that, for quite a long time.  Famous Saying by Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell, 1974

   House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.  Nice Word by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

   The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.  Meaningful Quotation by Alan Alda

   The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.  Good Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series, 1844

   The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.  Wise Phrase by Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 1945

   I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.  Wise Phrase by Andy Warhol

   A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.  Famous Saying by La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

   Architecture begins where engineering ends.  Nice Word by Walter Gropius

   All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.  Meaningful Quotation by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.  Good Quote by Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, 1930

   It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.  Wise Phrase by La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665

   God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.  Wise Phrase by Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942

   I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.  Famous Saying by Auguste Strindberg, Miss Julie, 1888

   I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes? My dear fellow, Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, I have no need to think of them. I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room.  Nice Word by Laurens Van der Post



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