Sayings by Author


This is a real nice one by Friedrich Nietzsche, “A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”

And this is a nice women quote by Friedrich Nietzsche,” Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

And this is what Friedrich Nietzsche had to say about artists, “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”

And a wisdom quote by Friedrich Nietzsche, “Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”

“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.” Friedrich Nietzsche wouldn’t have realised how true he could be when he said that.

A real true and funny quote: “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

This is a page that list some famous Cicero Quotes, ie Quotes, Saying, Proverbs and wisdom quotation by Marcus Tullius Cicero.

A saying on advice by Cicero, “Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.”

A Friendship Quote by cicero, “A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

On Books, “A home without books is a body without soul. ”

A Life Quote by Cicero, “A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

A Freedom Quote by Cicero, “Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. ”

This is a saying on habits, “Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. ”

I find this Cicero Quote very Motivating, “If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.”

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally. ” So just because you hurt someone unintentionally, don’t think that it is OK…to hurt.

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ” Was it Churchill who also said this?

“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. ”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. ”

A Women Quote by Oscar Wilde, “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

This is a good one by Oscar Wilde on marriage, ” Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. ”

An Oscar Wilde Quote on Pessimism, “Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ”

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you. ” Of course, you must never understand a work of art to appreciate it.

How can we start listing John Keats Quotations without first listing:

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. ”

One more on Beauty, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. ”

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. ”

A life saying by John Keats, “A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it”

One more quote on love, “Love is my religion - I could die for it.”

This is a quote on something close to his heart, Poetry, “If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all”

And here is one more on poetry and Life, “Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.”

A John Keats quote on Immortality, “I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here–how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality–I wish to live with you forever. “

A quote on Idea by Proust, “A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. ”

A Marcel Proust quote on the power of the Mind. “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust Said this on Women , “The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. ”

“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress”

“Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another’s view of the universe.”

A wisdom quote, ‘We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”

“Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

“A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it.”

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. ”

“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ”

“Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ”

“In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. ”

“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love”

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. ”

A great poet William Wordsworth has to say his on poetry, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”

“A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ”

“From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. ”

“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky.”

And this is something I like:

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!” - William Wordsworth!

“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.~ Aesop

“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.” ~ Aesop

“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” from Aesop’s, The Dog and the Shadow

“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.”

“Persuasion is often more effectual than force.”

“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.” ~Aesop

“The Horse and Groom A groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the same time stole his oats and sold them for his own profit. Alas! said the Horse, if you really wish me to be in good condition, you should groom me less, and feed me more. ”

The famous of them all, “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. ”

” It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ”

“Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.”

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