"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."

Eliot, George | Platitudes | 1 bookmarks

"I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree."

Wiesel, Elie | God | 2 bookmarks

"My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it."

Dangerfield, Rodney | Marriage | 2 bookmarks

"What's the difference between the music of my generation and today s. Our songs were about Love and Romance, today's music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring."

Vigilanti, David A. | Romance and Romanticism | 2 bookmarks

"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"

Marlowe, Christopher | Love | 2 bookmarks

"I quote others in order to better express myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De | Quotations | 8 bookmarks

"No one should be astonished if in the following discussion of completely new princedoms and of the prince and of government, I bring up the noblest examples. Because, since men almost always walk in the paths beaten by others and carry on their affairs by imitatingeven though it is not possible to keep wholly in the paths of others or to attain the ability of those you imitatea prudent man will always choose to take paths beaten by great men and to imitate those who have been especially admirable, in order that if his ability does not reach theirs, at least it may offer some suggestion of it; and he will act like prudent archers, who, seeing that the mark they plan to hit is too far away and knowing what space can be covered by the power of their bows, take an aim much higher than their mark, not in order to reach with their arrows so great a height, but to be able, with the aid of so high an aim, to attain their purpose. "

Machiavelli, Niccolo | Uncategorised | 1 bookmarks

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

Aquinas, St. Thomas | Friends and Friendship | 4 bookmarks

"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."

Bacon, Francis | Love | 10 bookmarks

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

Wilde, Oscar | Love Ended | 5 bookmarks