Miscellaneous quotes
973 quotes from 439 people
Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Pigs treat you like equals.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Christopher Soames, speech at the Reform Club (28 April 1981), reported in Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill. Volume Eight: Never Despair: 1945–1965. p. 304Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book I, 1098a; §7 as translated by W. D. Ross- NKNicholas Klein1884–1951Often credited to Mahatma Gandhi
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Statement on the occasion of Gandhi’s 70th birthday (1939) Einstein archive 32-601, published in Out of My Later Years (1950).Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913), Ch. IX: Outdoors and Indoors, p. 336; the final statement “quoted by Squire Bill Widener” as well as variants of it, are often misattributed to Roosevelt himself.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Different Seasons (1982)Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
JAJohn Anster1793–1867Often credited to Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGood friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
