Patriotism is the religion of hell.
45 wisdom & wit about patriotism
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
202 other wisdom & wit about society
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
321 quotes relating to death
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
197 thoughts about business
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
58 quotes about anger
I paint with shapes.
424 views about art
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
321 quotes about death
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
424 sayings about art
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
345 views about happiness
Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
321 other wisdom & wit regarding death
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
240 more quotes regarding faith
I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.
91 quotes regarding health
Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
11 sayings about computers
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
38 quotes about fatherhood
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
233 thoughts relating to being alone
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
321 quotes relating to death
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
233 other quotes regarding being alone
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
48 quotes about sports
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
180 more quotes relating to marriage
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
216 more views about hope
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
199 wisdom & wit about freedom
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
142 quotes about failure
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
424 thoughts regarding art
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
233 more quotes about being alone
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
161 more thoughts about courage
It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
112 thoughts about respect
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
249 quotes about aging
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
44 wisdom & wit about attitudes
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
218 other quotes about beauty
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
24 quotes regarding birthday
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
249 quotes about aging
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
30 other thoughts regarding cars
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
424 other views regarding art
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
161 views regarding courage
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
41 sayings about the law
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
262 other views relating to knowledge
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
262 other quotes regarding knowledge
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
249 thoughts about aging
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
197 other quotes relating to business
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
262 more sayings about knowledge
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
249 sayings regarding aging
Great art picks up where nature ends.
424 wisdom & wit relating to art
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
165 other quotes regarding the future
I believe it is peace in our time.
225 thoughts regarding peace
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
249 thoughts about aging
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
218 other views about beauty
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
249 wisdom & wit regarding aging
A woman has the age she deserves.
249 thoughts about aging
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
174 views regarding experience
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
364 quotes about best
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
233 more sayings about being alone
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
184 views about government
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
249 sayings about aging
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
78 sayings regarding food
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
233 quotes regarding being alone
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
233 quotes regarding being alone
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
62 quotes about architecture
I know that my race must change.
175 other quotes regarding change
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
249 quotes about aging
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
249 other thoughts regarding aging
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
44 quotes about attitudes
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
424 more views about art
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
321 views regarding death
Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
161 quotes about courage
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
233 quotes about being alone
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
250 more wisdom & wit relating to history
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
174 more quotes regarding experience
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
184 other quotes relating to government
Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!
30 more sayings about cars
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
249 quotes relating to aging
Don't come home a failure.
142 wisdom & wit about failure
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
345 thoughts about happiness
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
345 views about happiness
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
321 other sayings about death
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
424 views relating to art
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
131 more quotes about home
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
58 other quotes regarding anger
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
210 quotes regarding education
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
62 sayings about architecture
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
249 other quotes regarding aging
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
161 thoughts regarding courage
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
25 more sayings relating to environmental
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
233 wisdom & wit about being alone
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
233 quotes about being alone
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
277 other quotes about fear
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
44 other sayings regarding attitudes
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
58 other thoughts about anger
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
87 wisdom & wit about family
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
233 more thoughts about being alone
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
424 quotes relating to art
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
197 views regarding business
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
199 views relating to freedom
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
250 more quotes regarding history
A house is a machine for living in.
62 more sayings about architecture
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
249 quotes about aging
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
218 more quotes about beauty
After all, is football a game or a religion?
247 views about religion
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
218 quotes regarding beauty
He who keeps his cool best wins.
364 thoughts about best
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
345 quotes regarding happiness
The higher the building the lower the morals.
62 more quotes about architecture
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
175 quotes relating to change
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
427 quotes regarding being good
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
175 wisdom & wit regarding change
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
142 more quotes about failure
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
240 thoughts about faith
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
240 more sayings regarding faith
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
240 more thoughts regarding faith
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
161 views about courage
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
212 sayings about science
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
131 sayings regarding home
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
277 sayings regarding fear
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
58 other sayings about anger
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
247 wisdom & wit relating to religion