Maxims, Quotes & Epigrams
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Nothing
is worth more than this day.
—Goethe
Go
tell your mother she wants you.
—My
family, one sibling to another
I
never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry
David Thoreau
He
not busy being born is busy dying.
—Bob
Dylan
For
all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been."
—John
Greenleaf Whittier
If
I were two-faced,
would I be wearing this one?
—Abraham
Lincoln
Go
confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you've imagined.
—Henry
David Thoreau
In
wildness is the preservation of the world.
—Henry
David Thoreau
We
are each of us angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly embracing each other.
—Luciano
de Crescenzo
Life
is what happens while you're busy
making other plans.
—John
Lennon
To
achieve great things, we must live
as though we were never going to die.
—Vauvenarges
Whatever
you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
—Goethe
Thought
is the labour of the intellect,
reverie is its pleasure.
—Victor
Hugo
Do
not be too timid
and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experience.
—Ralph
Waldo Emerson
We
do not remember days;
we remember moments.
—Cesare
Pavese
He
has not acquired a fortune;
the fortune has acquired him.
—Bion
There
are no facts, only interpretations.
—Friedrich
Nietzsche
Silence
is the voice of complicity.
—Author
Unknown
Formula
for success:
Underpromise and overdeliver.
—Tom
Peters
There
is always an easy solution to every problem
—neat, plausible, and wrong.
—HL
Mencken
A
great pleasure in life is
doing what people say you cannot do.
—Walter
Bagehot
In
the midst of winter, I finally learned
that there was in me an invincible summer.
—Albert
Camus
If
I accept the sunshine and warmth
I must also accept the thunder and the lightning.
—Kahlil
Gibran
In
great memories there lies the seed of growth.
—H.
Ibsen
The
grand essentials of happiness are something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for.
—Allan
K. Chalmers
Our
brightest blazes of gladness
are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
—Samuel
Johnson
Grief
can take care of itself,
but to get the full value of a joy
you must have somebody to divide it with.
—Mark
Twain
To
love another you have to undertake
some fragment of their destiny.
—Quentin
Crisp
The
worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
—Joyce
Carol Oates
No
one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.
—Sara
Teasdale
For
of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
—John
Greenleaf Whittier
There's
a fine line between being on the leading edge
and being in the lunatic
fringe.
—Frank
Armstrong
This
is the final test of the gentleman:
his respect for those who can be of
no possible service to him.
—William
Lyon Phelps
I
live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years
of maturity.
—Albert
Einstein
The
world has achieved brilliance without conscience.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
—Gen.
Omar Bradley
Truth
often suffers more by the heat of its defenders
than the arguments of its opposers.
—William
Penn
Good
communication is as stimulating as black coffee,
and just as hard to sleep after.
—Anne
Morrow Lindbergh
Boredom
is the feeling that
everything is a waste of time;
serenity, that nothing is.
—Thomas
Szasz
It
is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies
and to end as superstitions.
—T.H.
Huxley
We
think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
—John
Webster
The
only real voyage of discovery consists
not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
—Marcel
Proust
It
is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
—Seneca
I
have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
—Publilius
Syrusn
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