Welcome to the Quotable Success Collections!

Quotable Success, like BeMoreCreative.com, encourages thinking, working, and living more creatively. Creativity is "the power to connect the seemingly unconnected" (W. Plommer). To support this work, we earn a small affiliate commission. Please browse creatively!


Sam Rayburn: When you get...

Sam Rayburn: When you get...

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

Source: In Correct...

More about this quote...

Mario Cuomo: People expect Byzantine,...

Mario Cuomo: People expect Byzantine,...

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good...

More about this quote...

Augustine Birrell: An ordinary man...

Augustine Birrell: An ordinary man...

An ordinary man can. . . surround himself with two thousand books. . . and thenceforward have at least one place in...

More about this quote...

John Bright: Force is not...

John Bright: Force is not...

Force is not a remedy.

Source: Speech, Birmingham, 16 Nov 1880.
-- John Bright,...

More about this quote...

Franklin Pierce: There's nothing left...

Franklin Pierce: There's nothing left...

There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.

Source: When asked what a President...

More about this quote...

Joseph Brodsky: Every writing career...

Joseph Brodsky: Every writing career...

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule...

More about this quote...

Joseph Brodsky: After all, it...

Joseph Brodsky: After all, it...

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had...

More about this quote...

Joseph Brodsky: Poetry is rather...

Joseph Brodsky: Poetry is rather...

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

More about this quote...

Joseph Brodsky: Life, the way...

Joseph Brodsky: Life, the way...

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and...

More about this quote...

Emily Dickinson: Find ecstasy in...

Emily Dickinson: Find ecstasy in...

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Source: From Journey...

More about this quote...

Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

A Wounded deer - leaps highest.

Source: 1860; Poems, First Series, 1890.
--...

More about this quote...

Samuel Foote: The great Panjandrum...

Samuel Foote: The great Panjandrum...

The great Panjandrum himself.

Source: Nonsense, quoted by Maria Edgeworth in Harry...

More about this quote...

Thomas Otway: Honest men<br>are the...

Thomas Otway: Honest men
are the...

Honest men
are the soft easy cushions on which knaves
Repose and fatten.


More about this quote...

David Hare: Sudden resolutions, like...

David Hare: Sudden resolutions, like...

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the...

More about this quote...

Antonin Artaud: When we speak...

Antonin Artaud: When we speak...

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of...

More about this quote...

Charles Dibdin: For they say...

Charles Dibdin: For they say...

For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft,
To keep watch for the life of poor...

More about this quote...

Harriet Monroe: Surely the vogue...

Harriet Monroe: Surely the vogue...

Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is...

More about this quote...

Sarah Josepha Hale: She was a...

Sarah Josepha Hale: She was a...

She was a weak woman - too highly elated in prosperity, too easily depressed by adversity - not considering that both...

More about this quote...

Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

Source: A...

More about this quote...

Robert E Sherwood: He must be...

Robert E Sherwood: He must be...

He must be a chaser of wild geese, as well as of wild ducks. He must be prepared to make a public spectacle of...

More about this quote...

Page 760 of 2,002


(C)2025 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA