Quotes - Jeff (Charlottetown, PE, Canada) Showing 1-30 of 45

#1

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
― Michael Levine

tags: wisdom

1360 likes

#2

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

536 likes

#3

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom

6248 likes

#4

“I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”
― Louisa May Alcott

tags: inspiration, wisdom

1243 likes

#5

“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

312 likes

#6

“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
― Euripides

tags: wisdom

373 likes

#7

“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.”
― Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom

671 likes

#8

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74444 likes

#9

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

tags: music

23153 likes

#10

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
― Nick Hornby

tags: films, music, relationships

2999 likes

#11

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words

tags: drugs, music, philosophy, politics

1610 likes

#12

“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: music

271 likes

#13

“I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”
― Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing

tags: music

228 likes

#14

“If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War

tags: love, music, power-of-music

361 likes

#15

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: precious, time, truth

467 likes

#16

“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”
― Gautama Buddha

tags: truth

1336 likes

#17

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
― René Descartes

tags: doubt, truth

718 likes

#18

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth

644 likes

#19

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92324 likes

#20

“A truth that no one knows is still the truth.”
― Sharon Shinn, Jenna Starborn

tags: inspirational, truth

121 likes

#21

“If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?”
― Gene Wilder

tags: truth

94 likes

#22

“Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

tags: truth

117 likes

#23

“And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.”
― Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

tags: logic, rationality, truth, wisdom

216 likes

#24

“There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.”
― Daniel Webster

tags: truth

37 likes

#25

“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
― Tacitus

tags: lies, truth

69 likes

#26

“I can wade Grief—
Whole Pools of it—
I'm used to that—
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet—
And I tip—drunken—
Let no Pebble—smile—
'Twas the New Liquor—
That was all!”
― Emily Dickinson, Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems

tags: emotion, grief, joy, loneliness, ocean, poetry

95 likes

#27

“An ear can break a human heart
As quickly as a spear,
We wish the ear had not a heart
So dangerously near.”
― Emily Dickinson

206 likes

#28

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”
― Emily Dickinson

176 likes

#29