Aristotle Quotes

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."- Aristotle

Plato Quotes

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."- Plato

Sophocles Quotes

"Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to."-Sophocles

Oscar Wilde Quotes

"Women have wonderful instincts about things. They can discover everything except the obvious."- Oscar Wilde

Albert Hitchcock Quotes

"If you show a gun in the first act, it had better have been fired by the third act."-Hitchcock

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."- Benjamin Franklin

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards."- Benjamin Franklin

Winston Churchill Quotes

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."- Winston Churchill

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."-Winston Churchill

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."- Winston Churchill

Elbert Hubbard Quotes

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."- Elbert Hubbard

Mark Twain Quotes

"Go to heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."- Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."- Mark Twain

"Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it."- Mark Twain

Robert Frost Quotes

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."-Robert Frost

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."-Robert Frost

"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."-Robert Frost

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."-Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."-Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."-Robert Frost

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."-Robert Frost

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."-Robert Frost

"Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in."-Robert Frost

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."-Robert Frost

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."-Robert Frost

"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."-Robert Frost

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."-Robert Frost

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."-Robert Frost

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."-Robert Frost

"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."-Robert Frost

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."-Robert Frost

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."-Robert Frost

"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."-Robert Frost

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."-Robert Frost

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."-Robert Frost

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."-Robert Frost

"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."-Robert Frost

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."-Robert Frost

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."-Robert Frost

"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."-Robert Frost

Marilyn Manson Quotes

"What nearly everybody in my life…had misunderstood about Satanism was that it’s not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you're responsible for your own good and evil."-Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Anne Frank Quotes

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature."-Anne Frank

Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

"Life begins on the other side of despair."(La vie commence lautre cot du desespoir.)-Jean-Paul Sartre

Christina Rossetti Quotes

"Come to me in the silence of the night,
Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright as sunlight on a stream.
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years."
- Christina Rossetti

Charles Dickens Quotes

"After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative face, into a back anteroom opening from the yard; and there, retiring into a corner, called up before his mind's eye a vast amphitheatre of faces over which a dusky curtain had hung for many years.…He wandered over them again. He had called them into view, and it was not easy to replace the shroud that had so long concealed them. There were the faces of friends, and foes, and of many that had been almost strangers peering intrusively from the crowd; there were the faces of young and blooming girls that were now old women; there were faces that the grave had changed and closed upon, but which the mind, superior to its power, still dressed in their old freshness and beauty, calling back the lustre of the eyes, the brightness of the smile, the beaming of the soul through its mask of clay, and whispering of beauty beyond the tomb, changed but to be heightened, and taken from earth only to be set up as a light, to shed a soft and gentle glow upon the path to Heaven. But the old gentleman could recall no one countenance of which Oliver's features bore a trace. So, he heaved a sigh over the recollections he awakened; and being, happily for himself, an absent old gentleman, buried them again in the pages of the musty book."-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Kurt Cobain Quotes

"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not."-Kurt Cobain

Chuang Tzu Quotes

"The torch of doubt and chaos is what the sage steers by."-Chuang Tzu

Georges Duhamel Quotes

"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it."-Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain

"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory."-Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain

Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them."-Marilyn Ferguson

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden, chapter 1 "Economy"