All Quotes
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That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.Don DeLillo, White Noise
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
With foxes we must play the fox.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.Edwin Schlossberg
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.Martin Luther King Jr.
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.Sigmund Freud
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park