Alex Brown's favorite quotes

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
— Agatha Christie

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"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."
— Agatha Christie

68 people liked it

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

1,046 people liked it

"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. "
— Richard Nixon

tags: harmony, music

7 people liked it

"There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full."
— Henry Kissinger

7 people liked it

"Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad."
— Henry Kissinger

tags: politics

4 people liked it

"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
— Henry Kissinger

3 people liked it

"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.”"
— Charles Manson

13 people liked it

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

528 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational

213 people liked it

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. "
— George Bernard Shaw

79 people liked it

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
— George Bernard Shaw

50 people liked it

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. "
— George Bernard Shaw

56 people liked it

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: life, real

64 people liked it

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, censorship, reading

32 people liked it

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
— George Bernard Shaw

37 people liked it

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
— George Bernard Shaw

35 people liked it

"Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it. "
— George Bernard Shaw

28 people liked it

"After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere."
— George Bernard Shaw

22 people liked it

"I'm sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: humor

33 people liked it

"I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
— George Bernard Shaw (The Apple-cart: A Political Extravaganza)

tags: 1930, apple, cart, shaw, temptation

12 people liked it

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
— George Bernard Shaw

6 people liked it

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."
— George Bernard Shaw

40 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom

6,253 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

839 people liked it

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
— William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

tags: insults, shakespeare

451 people liked it

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)

376 people liked it

"He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

3 people liked it

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere"
— de la Rochefoucauld

4 people liked it

"We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

3 people liked it

"We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

4 people liked it

"We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

5 people liked it

"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

7 people liked it

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
— François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

9 people liked it

"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: wisdom

31 people liked it

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth

94 people liked it

"All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

3 people liked it

"Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

2 people liked it

"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: death, life, philosophy, sun

7 people liked it

"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity."
— Duc de La Rochefoucauld

tags: ethics, evil, good, hypocrisy, piety, virtue

5 people liked it

"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
— François de la Rochefoucauld

tags: fear, hope

3 people liked it

"It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them"
— François de La Rochefoucauld

3 people liked it

"The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often."
— George Bernard Shaw

5 people liked it

"Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages."
— George Bernard Shaw

11 people liked it

"If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn’t be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds. "
— Irwin Shaw

3 people liked it

"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
— George Bernard Shaw

3 people liked it

"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."
— Irwin Shaw

8 people liked it

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
— George Bernard Shaw

9 people liked it

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: activism, progress, reasonable, unreasonable

139 people liked it

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