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Michel De Montaigne:Death, they say, acquits us


Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
by Michel De Montaigne


Voltaire:Very often, say what you will, a knave


Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
by Voltaire


George Bernard Shaw:You see things; and you say


You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
by George Bernard Shaw


Edmund Burke:It is hard to say whether the


It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
by Edmund Burke


Remy De Gourmont:If the secret of being a bore


If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be—not understood, but divined.
by Remy De Gourmont


George Eliot:Blessed is the man who, having


Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
by George Eliot


Ralph Waldo Emerson:What you do speaks so loudly


What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson


Glenn Ford:If they try to rush me, I always say,


If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.
by Glenn Ford


Anatole France:If fifty million people say a


If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
by Anatole France


Douglas Pike:Success provides more opportunities


Success provides more opportunities to say things than the number of things a pundit has worth saying.
by Douglas Pike


William Wycherley:Go, go to your business, I


Go, go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
by William Wycherley


Ramakrishna:You see many stars at night in the


You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
by Ramakrishna


Arnold Edinborough:Curiosity is the very basis


Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
by Arnold Edinborough


Hui-Neng:There is nothing true anywhere, The


There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
by Hui-Neng


William Romain:If a man is happy in his work


If a man is happy in his work exerting himself to the full extent of his capabilities, and enjoying it I'd say he's a success.
by William Romain


G.K. Chesterton:...But nature does not say that


...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.
by G.K. Chesterton


Henry Adams:You say that love is nonsense....I


You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache orrheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
by Henry Adams


Albert Einstein:If my theory of relativty is


If my theory of relativty is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
by Albert Einstein


George Hegel:Since philosophy is the exploration


Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.
by George Hegel


J.R.R. Tolkien:The road goes ever on and on down


The road goes ever on and on down fromthe door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone and I must follow if I can. Pursuing it with weary feet until it joins some larger way, where many paths and errands meet -and whither then, I cannot say.
by J.R.R. Tolkien


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