Quotes

Quotes

In total there are 444 quotes in this list. Showing results 351-375.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

EN | QUOTE | Francis Bacon

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

EN | QUOTE | Chris Hedges

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

EN | QUOTE | Henny Youngman

The soul invariably travels at the speed of a camel.

EN | QUOTE | (Arabic saying)

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good.

EN | QUOTE | W. H. Auden

The sustainability of the environment is ensured by the co-existence of species that by definition do not engage in fruitful intercourse.

EN | QUOTE | Anthony Judge

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

EN | QUOTE | Hermann Hesse

The two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

EN | QUOTE | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The world has persisted many a long year, having once been set going in the appropriate motions. From these everything else follows.

EN | QUOTE | Lucretius

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

EN | QUOTE | Benjamin Disraeli

Theories are cheap; proof is precious.

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There are different kinds of rules. From the simple comes the complex, and from the complex comes a different kind of simplicity. Chaos is order in a mask.

EN | QUOTE | Terry Pratchett

There are many good people who are beneficially stimulated by some, but not all, manmade arrangements of colors and shapes on flat surfaces, essentially nonsense.

EN | QUOTE | Kurt Vonnegut,Jr.

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

EN | QUOTE | William Somerset Maugham

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

EN | QUOTE | Voltaire

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt.

EN | QUOTE | John Adams

There is a hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags will not wave in a vacuum.

EN | QUOTE | Arthur C. Clarke

There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

EN | QUOTE | Douglas Noel Adams

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity.

EN | QUOTE | Saint Augustine

There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

EN | QUOTE | Ovid

There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person.

EN | QUOTE | Garrett Hardin

There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

EN | QUOTE | Samuel Butler

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

EN | QUOTE | Aristotle

There's good money in empire building. But, there's more in empire wrecking.

EN | QUOTE | Margaret Mitchell

They hang the man, and flog the woman, That steals the goose from off the common; But let the greater villain loose, That steals the common from the goose.

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