Thousands of phrases, quotations and aphorisms listed by authors and topics

Shenron: Speak. Name your wish. Say it now and it will be so granted.

Wishes

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

Architecture

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Appearance

Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe.

Beauty Love Religion

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Humor Politics

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.

Nature

Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination.

Art

Verily by Beauty it is that we come at WISDOM,
yet not by Reason at Beauty.

Beauty

Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.

Darkness

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the fear'd.

Rumors

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Art

Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else's stinks.

Religion

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Freedom

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Art

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Attitude Behavior Decisions Inspiration Motivation Psychology Responsibility

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Literature

I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,
Than you should such dishonour undergo.

Honor

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

Example

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

Loneliness

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Work