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Francis Beaumont: It is more...

Francis Beaumont: It is more...

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

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Shelagh Delaney: [W]hen you leave...

Shelagh Delaney: [W]hen you leave...

[W]hen you leave school finally you will find that life is a game, sometimes serious, sometimes fun, but a game that...

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Luigi Pirandello: Drama is action,...

Luigi Pirandello: Drama is action,...

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Source: Six Characters...

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J August Strindberg: People are constantly...

J August Strindberg: People are constantly...

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of...

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Ethel Watts Mumford: There was a...

Ethel Watts Mumford: There was a...

There was a young person of Tottenhem,
Whose manners, good Lord! she'd forgotten 'em.


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Aphra Behn: Nothing is more...

Aphra Behn: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in...

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Colley Cibber: Stolen sweets are...

Colley Cibber: Stolen sweets are...

Stolen sweets are best.

Source: The Rival Fools, I.
-- Colley Cibber, (Nov 6...

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Neil Simon: People with honorary...

Neil Simon: People with honorary...

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new...

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Ovid: In an easy...

Ovid: In an easy...

In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already...

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Alexander Pope: For observations which...

Alexander Pope: For observations which...

For observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th'observer's sake.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Words, like nature,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Words, like nature,...

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Source: In The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Things seen are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Things seen are...

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

Source: Enoch Arden.
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Virgil: Time bears away...

Virgil: Time bears away...

Time bears away all things, even the mind.

Source: Eclogues.
-- Virgil, (Oct 15...

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Virgil: Believe one who...

Virgil: Believe one who...

Believe one who has tried it.

Source: In Reader's Digest.
-- Virgil, (Oct 15...

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Emily Dickinson: How dreary to...

Emily Dickinson: How dreary to...

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring...

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Francesco Petrarch: Who naught suspects...

Francesco Petrarch: Who naught suspects...

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Source: In The Manager's Book of...

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Jean de LaFontaine: In everything one...

Jean de LaFontaine: In everything one...

In everything one must consider the end.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel...

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Countee Cullen: My poetry, I...

Countee Cullen: My poetry, I...

My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

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Allen Ginsberg: Whoever controls the...

Allen Ginsberg: Whoever controls the...

Whoever controls the media -- the images -- controls the culture.

Source: From an...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis better to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis better to...

Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.


Source: In...

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