"A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness
3 fans of this quote   

"It is easy to forgive an insult, but harder to forget one."

Lipsey, Michael on insults
3 fans of this quote   

"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good."

Swift, Jonathan on enemies
3 fans of this quote   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."

Swift, Jonathan on kisses and kissing
4 fans of this quote   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"May you live all the days of your life."

Swift, Jonathan on life   

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it."

Swift, Jonathan on sarcasm
3 fans of this quote   

"Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on love
5 fans of this quote   

"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."

Gauguin, Paul on life   

"Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad."

Bischer on evil   

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

Plato on knowledge
4 fans of this quote   

"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."

Plato on greatness   

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

Dyer, Wayne on loneliness
26 fans of this quote   

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite."

Levenson, Samuel on wisdom   

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."

Horace on wisdom
3 fans of this quote   

"Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character."

Emmet, Robert on epitaphs   

"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on epitaphs
10 fans of this quote   

"If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave."

Proverb, American on epitaphs   

"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."

Plato on evil   

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

Plato on faith
7 fans of this quote   

"It is not every question that deserves an answer."

Syrus, Publilius on interviews
3 fans of this quote