- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13898/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13898/ <![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39146/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39146/ <![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37417/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37417/ <![CDATA[He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33627/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33627/ <![CDATA[If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42682/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42682/ <![CDATA[We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16683/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16683/ <![CDATA[Wisdom comes by disillusionment.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41666/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41666/ <![CDATA[Music is essentially useless, as life is.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27692/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27692/ <![CDATA[It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40261/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40261/ <![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13449/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13449/ <![CDATA[Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28934/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28934/ <![CDATA[Where there is love there is life.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24553/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24553/ <![CDATA[Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/345/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/345/ <![CDATA[Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40649/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40649/ <![CDATA[Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3820/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3820/ <![CDATA[So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/779/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/779/ <![CDATA[Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16261/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16261/ <![CDATA[Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11660/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11660/ <![CDATA[It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20206/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20206/ <![CDATA[High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9492/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9492/ <![CDATA[Let the path be open to talent.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11012/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11012/ <![CDATA[One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37383/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37383/ <![CDATA[Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27939/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27939/ <![CDATA[The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10977/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10977/ <![CDATA[The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/496/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/496/ <![CDATA[For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4174/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4174/ <![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30721/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30721/ <![CDATA[Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28253/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28253/ <![CDATA[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.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12681/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12681/ <![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36437/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36437/ <![CDATA[Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32175/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32175/ <![CDATA[Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31404/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31404/ <![CDATA[When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5920/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5920/ <![CDATA[To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5919/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5919/ <![CDATA[Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5653/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5653/ <![CDATA[To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5652/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/5652/ <![CDATA[Poetry is what is lost in translation.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30725/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30725/ <![CDATA[The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. ]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45157/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45157/ <![CDATA[A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little personal characteristics.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14660/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14660/ <![CDATA[People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10585/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10585/