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

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.

Fate

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Courage

It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.

Addictions Humor Sex

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Dreams

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

Miscellaneous

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Friendship

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Health

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Literature

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Freedom Politics

Despising money is like toppling a king off his throne.

Money

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

Art

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Beauty

At this every lady drew up her mouth as if going to pronounce the letter P.

Words

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

Example

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

Travel

You are like nobody since I love you.

Love

Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them.

Bureaucracy

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Christmas

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Forgiveness

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

Change