Popular Quotes Through Time

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

An honest man is always a child.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.