Quotes, maxims and aphorisms - Buboquote.com

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway /

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw /

love

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Baruch Spinoza /

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Arthur Schopenhauer /

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Mahatma Gandhi /

truth

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Niccolo Machiavelli /

change

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Hannah Arendt /

happiness

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Honore de Balzac /

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Francis Bacon /

The desire to write grows with writing.

Desiderius Erasmus /

writing

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

art

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Francis Bacon /

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

courage

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

François Rabelais /

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Mahatma Gandhi /

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire /

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Alphonse de Lamartine /

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.

Francis Bacon /

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

poetry

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Bertolt Brecht /

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

François Fénelon /

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