Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Crisp

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

Quentin Crisp

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

Pliny the Elder

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny the Elder

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Plutarch

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Plutarch

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

Plutarch

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Plutarch

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It's with my brush that I make love.

Phyllis Schlafly

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

Pico Iyer

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Philip Yancey

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

Polybius

We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.

Pope John XXIII

I am made to tremble and I fear!

Pope Francis

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

Mike Gravel

I’m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It’s a lot safer to do it on marijuana

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

Nathaniel Branden

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

Vernon Lee

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers ...

Vernon Howard

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Richard Bach

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Richard Bach

You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take.

Richard Bach

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

Robert Fulghum

The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.

Robert Fulghum

But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

Robert Fulghum

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

Robert Fulghum

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Robert Frost

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

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 Blair

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.