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James A Garfield: Things don't turn...

James A Garfield: Things don't turn...

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Source: In The...

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Princess of Wales Diana: People think that...

Princess of Wales Diana: People think that...

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for...

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Winston Churchill: If we open...

Winston Churchill: If we open...

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the...

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Winston Churchill: And you, madam,...

Winston Churchill: And you, madam,...

And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.

Source: Replying...

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Gertrude Stein: Oh, I wish...

Gertrude Stein: Oh, I wish...

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Source: Quoted by...

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Jessamyn West: In their sympathies,...

Jessamyn West: In their sympathies,...

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Source: The Life I...

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Jerome K Jerome: Idleness, like kisses,...

Jerome K Jerome: Idleness, like kisses,...

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle...

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Ralph Ellison: If the word...

Ralph Ellison: If the word...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and...

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Agatha Christie: Never do anything...

Agatha Christie: Never do anything...

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Source:
-- Agatha...

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Agatha Christie: It is ridiculous...

Agatha Christie: It is ridiculous...

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...

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Jean Toomer: I am not...

Jean Toomer: I am not...

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

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Edgar Watson Howe: When you are...

Edgar Watson Howe: When you are...

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the...

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Mark Twain: A man never...

Mark Twain: A man never...

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

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Mark Twain: All the modern...

Mark Twain: All the modern...

All the modern inconveniences.

Source: Life on the Mississippi.
-- Mark Twain,...

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Mark Twain: An ethical man...

Mark Twain: An ethical man...

An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces.

Source:
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Mark Twain: All I say...

Mark Twain: All I say...

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's...

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Mark Twain: He does not...

Mark Twain: He does not...

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel...

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Frederick Douglass: Those who profess...

Frederick Douglass: Those who profess...

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want rain without thunder and...

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Frederick Douglass: Be not discouraged....

Frederick Douglass: Be not discouraged....

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . . Only as we...

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Jean Paul: No author can...

Jean Paul: No author can...

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

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