Miscellaneous quotes
973 quotes from 439 people
Aristotle384–322 BCRhetoric, Book I, 1369a.5
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther1483–1546Often credited to Martin Luther King Jr.Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain1835–1910Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Ch. 19.Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch 43The true meaning of life is to plant trees, whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist (1891), Part IIAs the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face—forever.
George Orwell1903–1950Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
?UnattributedOften credited to Benjamin FranklinLet us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950In The World (18 July 1894), Music in London 1890-1894: Being Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World (New York: Vienna House, 1973)
