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Pedro Calderon de la Barca: For I see...

Pedro Calderon de la Barca: For I see...

For I see now that I am asleep that I dream when I am awake.

Source: Life is a...

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Maurice Maeterlinck: How strangely do...

Maurice Maeterlinck: How strangely do...

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

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Brendan Behan: I have a...

Brendan Behan: I have a...

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer...

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John Fletcher: Love's tongue is...

John Fletcher: Love's tongue is...

Love's tongue is in his eyes.

Source: Piscatory Eclogues, V. xiii
-- John...

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Paul Eldridge: Man is ready...

Paul Eldridge: Man is ready...

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that the idea is not quite clear to him.

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Thomas Tusser: In doing of...

Thomas Tusser: In doing of...

In doing of either, let wit bear a stroke,
For buying or selling of pig in a poke.


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Terry McMillan: It's sad to...

Terry McMillan: It's sad to...

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But...

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Ugo Betti: Mad' is a...

Ugo Betti: Mad' is a...

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

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Francois Mauriac: Every novel worthy...

Francois Mauriac: Every novel worthy...

Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has...

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Sir Walter Besant: You cannot believe...

Sir Walter Besant: You cannot believe...

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window...

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Francoise Sagan: Jazz music is...

Francoise Sagan: Jazz music is...

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Source: Dominique, in A...

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Mark Twain: When the doctrine...

Mark Twain: When the doctrine...

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of...

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Mark Twain: Guides cannot master...

Mark Twain: Guides cannot master...

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

Source: Innocents Abroad,...

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Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned,...

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Phillips Brooks: To say, well...

Phillips Brooks: To say, well...

To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them...

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Hosea Ballou: Doubt is the...

Hosea Ballou: Doubt is the...

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Hosea Ballou: Never let your...

Hosea Ballou: Never let your...

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

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Thomas W Higginson: To be really...

Thomas W Higginson: To be really...

To be really cosmopolitan, a man must be at home even in his own country.

Source:...

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John Bunyan: Temptations, when we...

John Bunyan: Temptations, when we...

Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we...

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Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: Be glad of...

Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: Be glad of...

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the...

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