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Voltaire: Originality is nothing...

Voltaire: Originality is nothing...

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from...

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Lyman Abbott: Patience is passion...

Lyman Abbott: Patience is passion...

Patience is passion tamed.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Brigham Young: Never let a...

Brigham Young: Never let a...

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

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Pope John XXIII: Men are like...

Pope John XXIII: Men are like...

Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Source: In...

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St Jerome: A fat paunch...

St Jerome: A fat paunch...

A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever...

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Brigham Young: It is wise...

Brigham Young: It is wise...

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

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Brigham Young: Silence may be...

Brigham Young: Silence may be...

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to...

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Robert Burton: A mere scholar,...

Robert Burton: A mere scholar,...

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Swami Ramdas: Place yourself as...

Swami Ramdas: Place yourself as...

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

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Baltasar Gracian: Self-reflection is the...

Baltasar Gracian: Self-reflection is the...

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom,...

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Jean de LaBruyere: The Opera is...

Jean de LaBruyere: The Opera is...

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

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Baltasar Gracian: Don't take the...

Baltasar Gracian: Don't take the...

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right...

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Saint Augustine: God loves each...

Saint Augustine: God loves each...

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Saint Augustine: God is more...

Saint Augustine: God is more...

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

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Pope Paul III: The enemy of...

Pope Paul III: The enemy of...

The enemy of the human race . . . invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of...

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He [Coleridge] talked...

He [Coleridge] talked...

He [Coleridge] talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.

Source:...

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He stood bewildered,...

He stood bewildered,...

He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world. . . . He is...

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The purpose of...

The purpose of...

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

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The future is...

The future is...

The future is . . . black.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the Week', 25 Aug...

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The ideology of...

The ideology of...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of...

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