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Mark Twain: The report of...

Mark Twain: The report of...

The report of my death is exaggerated.

Source: Cable from London to the Associated...

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Mark Twain: The holy passion...

Mark Twain: The holy passion...

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a...

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Mark Twain: The lack of...

Mark Twain: The lack of...

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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E M Forster: Two cheers for...

E M Forster: Two cheers for...

Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits...

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E M Forster: Spoon feeding in...

E M Forster: Spoon feeding in...

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

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E M Forster: The people I...

E M Forster: The people I...

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

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Joseph Heller: Peace on earth...

Joseph Heller: Peace on earth...

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Source: Good as...

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Joseph Heller: Orr would be...

Joseph Heller: Orr would be...

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them...

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George Eliot: It is seldom...

George Eliot: It is seldom...

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are...

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George Eliot: It is generally...

George Eliot: It is generally...

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of...

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George Eliot: Life is measured...

George Eliot: Life is measured...

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the...

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Salman Rushdie: The real risks...

Salman Rushdie: The real risks...

The real risks for any artist are taken. . . in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to...

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Mark Twain: Keep away from...

Mark Twain: Keep away from...

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you...

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Mark Twain: She was not...

Mark Twain: She was not...

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of...

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George Eliot: Ignorant kindness may...

George Eliot: Ignorant kindness may...

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an...

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George Eliot: There is hardly...

George Eliot: There is hardly...

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs,...

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George Eliot: You have such...

George Eliot: You have such...

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem...

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George Eliot: Rome, the city...

George Eliot: Rome, the city...

Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with...

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George Eliot: But what we...

George Eliot: But what we...

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Not everything has...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Not everything has...

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Source:...

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