Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas J. Watson

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas Keneally

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

Thomas Keneally

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

Raymond Queneau

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

Victor Hugo

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Victor Hugo

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius...

Victor Hugo

We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.

Victor Hugo

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Victor Hugo

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

Victor Hugo

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Victor Hugo

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Victor Hugo

Liberation is not deliverance.

Victor Hugo

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Victor Hugo

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

Sam Levenson

It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

Saadi

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

Saadi

Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.

Saadi

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

Saadi

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

Saadi

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

Saadi

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost, I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

Saadi

He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.

Saadi

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

Saadi

In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

Saadi

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant

Saadi

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

Rumi

‎There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

Rumi

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

Rumi

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

Rumi

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.

Rumi

Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?

Rumi

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!