Quotes

Quotes


I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
- Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
Never memorize something that you can look up.
- Albert Einstein
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
- Plato
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
- Albert Einstein
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
- A.A. Milne
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
- Virginia Woolf
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist