Popular Quotes Through Time

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

To do a great right do a little wrong

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Freedom lies in being bold.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

The only way round is through.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.