"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
--Kahlil Gibran [More Quotes from Kahlil Gibran]
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
--Johann Von Goethe [More Quotes from Johann Von Goethe]
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."
--Walter Kerr [More Quotes from Walter Kerr]
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity."
--Martin Luther King Jr. [More Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.]
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
--Bertrand Russell [More Quotes from Bertrand Russell]
POPULARITY QUOTES
"Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world."
--Thomas Carlyle [More Quotes from Thomas Carlyle]
"Applause waits on success."
--Benjamin Franklin [More Quotes from Benjamin Franklin]
"Popularity is glory's small change."
--Victor Hugo [More Quotes from Victor Hugo]
"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
--Aldous Huxley [More Quotes from Aldous Huxley]
"Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them."
--Immanuel Kant [More Quotes from Immanuel Kant]
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
--Abraham Lincoln [More Quotes from Abraham Lincoln]
"Whatever is popular deserves attention."
--James Mackintosh [More Quotes from James Mackintosh]
"True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after."
--Lord Mansfield [More Quotes from Lord Mansfield]
"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him."
--Wilson Mizner [More Quotes from Wilson Mizner]
"Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit."
--William Penn [More Quotes from William Penn]
ATTITUDES QUOTES
"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;
because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;
for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
--Milton Berle [More Quotes from Milton Berle]
"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer."
--Albert Camus [More Quotes from Albert Camus]
"The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers."
--Kahlil Gibran [More Quotes from Kahlil Gibran]
"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
--Kahlil Gibran [More Quotes from Kahlil Gibran]
"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."
--Washington Irving [More Quotes from Washington Irving]
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
--Helen Keller [More Quotes from Helen Keller]
"A will finds a way."
--Orison Swett Marden [More Quotes from Orison Swett Marden]
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
--Reinhold Niebuhr [More Quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr]
"She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world."
--Adlai E. Stevenson [More Quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson]
"Every exit is an entry somewhere."
--Tom Stoppard [More Quotes from Tom Stoppard]
"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
--Oscar Wilde [More Quotes from Oscar Wilde]
Marriage Quotes
"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal."
--Louis K. Anspacher [More Quotes from Louis K. Anspacher]
"Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."
--Joseph Barth [More Quotes from Joseph Barth]
"Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled."
--Henry Ward Beecher [More Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher]
"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."
--Peter Devries [More Quotes from Peter Devries]
"I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man."
--Benjamin Disraeli [More Quotes from Benjamin Disraeli]
"Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning."
--Alexis Dupuy [More Quotes from Alexis Dupuy]
"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."
--Benjamin Franklin [More Quotes from Benjamin Franklin]
"Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three."
--Washington Irving [More Quotes from Washington Irving]
"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."
--Andr Maurois [More Quotes from Andr Maurois]
"I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage."
--Will Rogers [More Quotes from Will Rogers]
"It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure."
--Herbert Samuel [More Quotes from Herbert Samuel]
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them."
--Sydney Smith [More Quotes from Sydney Smith]
"God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her."
--Benjamin Tillett [More Quotes from Benjamin Tillett]
"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly."
--Peter De Vries [More Quotes from Peter De Vries]
"Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed."
--Oscar Wilde [More Quotes from Oscar Wilde]
PARENTS QUOTES
"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears."
--Francis Bacon [More Quotes from Francis Bacon]
"We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves."
--Henry Ward Beecher [More Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher]
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."
--Clarence Darrow [More Quotes from Clarence Darrow]
"How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!"
--Samuel Griswold Goodrich [More Quotes from Samuel Griswold Goodrich]
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
--Theodore M. Hesburgh [More Quotes from Theodore M. Hesburgh]
"Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,And that's what parents were created for."
--Ogden Nash [More Quotes from Ogden Nash]
"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you."
--Peter De Vries [More Quotes from Peter De Vries]
FLATTERY QUOTES
"It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living."
--Antisthenes [More Quotes from Antisthenes]
"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."
--Josh Billings [More Quotes from Josh Billings]
"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."
--Josh Billings [More Quotes from Josh Billings]
"Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out."
--Dale Carnegie [More Quotes from Dale Carnegie]
"Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools."
--George Chapman [More Quotes from George Chapman]
"Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection."
--Frank Moore Colby [More Quotes from Frank Moore Colby]
"Fools grow without watering."
--Thomas Fuller [More Quotes from Thomas Fuller]
"Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present."
--Samuel Johnson [More Quotes from Samuel Johnson]
"Knavery and flattery are blood relations."
--Abraham Lincoln [More Quotes from Abraham Lincoln]
"Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise."
--William Penn [More Quotes from William Penn]
"What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning."
--Proverb [More Quotes from Proverb]
"It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise."
--Jean Paul Richter [More Quotes from Jean Paul Richter]
"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."
--Franois De La Rochefoucauld [More Quotes from Franois De La Rochefoucauld]
"No fools are so troublesome as those who have some wit."
--Franois De La Rochefoucauld [More Quotes from Franois De La Rochefoucauld]
"Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering."
--George Bernard Shaw [More Quotes from George Bernard Shaw]
"None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
--Benedict Spinoza [More Quotes from Benedict Spinoza]
"A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears."
--William Makepeace Thackeray [More Quotes from William Makepeace Thackeray]
"Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed."
--Mark Twain [More Quotes from Mark Twain]
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PERSONALITY QUOTES
"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature."
--Bruce Barton [More Quotes from Bruce Barton]
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
--Sigmund Freud [More Quotes from Sigmund Freud]
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
--Erich Fromm [More Quotes from Erich Fromm]
"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."
--Martin Heidegger [More Quotes from Martin Heidegger]
"It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes]
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
--Nelson Mandela [More Quotes from Nelson Mandela]
"Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity."
--Don Marquis [More Quotes from Don Marquis]
"Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower."
--Charles M. Schwab [More Quotes from Charles M. Schwab]
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
--Mark Twain [More Quotes from Mark Twain]
"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
--J. B. Yeats [More Quotes from J. B. Yeats]
PUNCTUALITY QUOTES
"I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."
--Nathaniel Emmons [More Quotes from Nathaniel Emmons]
"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time."
--Horace Mann [More Quotes from Horace Mann]
"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
--Don Marquis [More Quotes from Don Marquis]
"If you're there before it's over, you're on time."
--James J. Walker [More Quotes from James J. Walker]
JEALOUSY QUOTES
"Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening."
--Maya Angelou [More Quotes from Maya Angelou]
"Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment."
--Anonymous [More Quotes from Anonymous]
"Jealousy is ... a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart."
--Michael Beer [More Quotes from Michael Beer]
"Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,For jealousy dislikes the world to know it."
--Lord Byron [More Quotes from Lord Byron]
"The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads."
--Dorothy Dix [More Quotes from Dorothy Dix]
"Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul"
--John Dryden [More Quotes from John Dryden]
"Jealousy is the grave of affection."
--Mary Baker Eddy [More Quotes from Mary Baker Eddy]
"What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes."
--John Gay [More Quotes from John Gay]
"Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first."
--Job E. Hedges [More Quotes from Job E. Hedges]
"There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."
--Washington Irving [More Quotes from Washington Irving]
"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."
--Erica Jong [More Quotes from Erica Jong]
"She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night."
--Ada Leverson [More Quotes from Ada Leverson]
"It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."
--Clare Boothe Luce [More Quotes from Clare Boothe Luce]
"The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous."
--H. L. Mencken [More Quotes from H. L. Mencken]
"Jealousy is the injured lover's hell."
--John Milton [More Quotes from John Milton]
"I believe she would be jealous of a find day, if her husband praised it."
--Hanna Moore [More Quotes from Hanna Moore]
"jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins."
--Iris Murdoch [More Quotes from Iris Murdoch]
"The knives of jealousy are honed on details."
--Ruth Rendell [More Quotes from Ruth Rendell]
"In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another."
--Franois De La Rochefoucauld [More Quotes from Franois De La Rochefoucauld]
"jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it."
--Franois De La Rochefoucauld [More Quotes from Franois De La Rochefoucauld]
"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
--Franois De La Rochefoucauld [More Quotes from Franois De La Rochefoucauld]
"Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds."
--Helen Rowland [More Quotes from Helen Rowland]
"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
--Francoise Sagan [More Quotes from Francoise Sagan]
"And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not."
--William Shakespeare [More Quotes from William Shakespeare]
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on."
--William Shakespeare [More Quotes from William Shakespeare]
"Jealousy is cruel as the grave."
--Ths Shulamite [More Quotes from Ths Shulamite]
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
--H.G. Wells [More Quotes from H.G. Wells]
"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."
--Oscar Wilde [More Quotes from Oscar Wilde]
