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Doug Horton: Death is feared...

Doug Horton: Death is feared...

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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St Teresa of Avila: . . ....

St Teresa of Avila: . . ....

. . . about the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text...

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St Teresa of Avila: Patient endurance<br>Attaineth to...

St Teresa of Avila: Patient endurance
Attaineth to...

Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God...

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St Teresa of Avila: If we plant...

St Teresa of Avila: If we plant...

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe...

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Confucius: He who learns...

Confucius: He who learns...

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great...

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Socrates: I decided that...

Socrates: I decided that...

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration,...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Who longest waits most surely wins.

Source: In The Book of Positive Quotations, by...

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Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it...

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Stephen Crane: Every sin is...

Stephen Crane: Every sin is...

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Robert Graves: Anthropologists are a...

Robert Graves: Anthropologists are a...

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples...

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Robert Graves: Love is a...

Robert Graves: Love is a...

Love is a universal migraine
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.


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Robert Graves: The remarkable thing...

Robert Graves: The remarkable thing...

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good -- in spite of all the people who say he is very...

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Georges Bernanos: Truth is meant...

Georges Bernanos: Truth is meant...

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

Source: The...

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C P Snow: I grant you...

C P Snow: I grant you...

'I grant you that he's not two-faced,' I said. 'But what's the use of that when the one face he has got is so...

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C P Snow: I was moving...

C P Snow: I was moving...

I was moving among two groups . . . who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and...

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Joseph Conrad: Any work that...

Joseph Conrad: Any work that...

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every...

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Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do....

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Lao-Tzu: In the world...

Lao-Tzu: In the world...

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong...

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Mencius: Friendship is one...

Mencius: Friendship is one...

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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Gaston Bachelard: Literary imagination is...

Gaston Bachelard: Literary imagination is...

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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