All Quotes
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.Steven Wright
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.Sydney J. Harris, Strictly Personal
It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter 46
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?Logan Pearsall Smith
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.Sophie Tucker
I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing, Page 4 , final paragraph
Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.Alexander Senturia