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Charles V: A single friar...

Charles V: A single friar...

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

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Mary Todd Lincoln: [O]thers live on...

Mary Todd Lincoln: [O]thers live on...

[O]thers live on in a careless and lukewarm state -- not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: Into each life, some...

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Martha Washington: I live a...

Martha Washington: I live a...

I live a very dull life here . . . indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything...

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James Baker: Who could not...

James Baker: Who could not...

Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the...

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Antonio Gramsci: Before puberty the...

Antonio Gramsci: Before puberty the...

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire...

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Harold Macmillan: As usual the...

Harold Macmillan: As usual the...

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original...

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Harold Macmillan: It's no use...

Harold Macmillan: It's no use...

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

Source: On Soviet cancellation of summit...

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Harold Macmillan: When the curtain...

Harold Macmillan: When the curtain...

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Source: On...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: All human actions...

Jean-Paul Sartre: All human actions...

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

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May Sarton: Anyone who is...

May Sarton: Anyone who is...

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at 15 to write several novels.

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Louise Erdrich: Here I am,...

Louise Erdrich: Here I am,...

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be...

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Titus Maccius Plautus: He means well'...

Titus Maccius Plautus: He means well'...

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Source: In Quote Disk 1,2,3, by ...

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Eugene Ionesco: It isn't what...

Eugene Ionesco: It isn't what...

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

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Eugene Ionesco: The universe seems...

Eugene Ionesco: The universe seems...

The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish...

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Stephen R Covey: Management is efficiency...

Stephen R Covey: Management is efficiency...

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning...

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Each person has...

Each person has...

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of...

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If men of...

If men of...

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

Source: Letter to...

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Jules Renard: The reward of...

Jules Renard: The reward of...

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are...

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George Bernard Shaw: How can what...

George Bernard Shaw: How can what...

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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Talent works, genius...

Talent works, genius...

Talent works, genius creates.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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