All Quotes

"Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.""

"Forewarned forearmed."

"A stout man's heart breaks bad luck."

"As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay."

"There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other."

"Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?"

"I'll turn over a new leaf."

"Let every man look before he leaps."

"La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos."

"Marriage is a noose."

"There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots."

"Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."

"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency."

"There is no love lost, sir."

"He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie."

"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."

"Comparisons are odious."

"I say patience, and shuffle the cards."

"The proof of the pudding is the eating."

"El que lee mucho y anda mucho vee mucho y sabe mucho."

"Tomorrow will be a new day."

"He is as like one, as one egg is like another."

"You can see farther into a millstone than he."

"Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle."

"In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is."

"Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship to thee."

"Building castles in the air, 36 and making yourself a laughing-stock."

"It is good to live and learn."

"Great persons are able to do great kindnesses."

"Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master."

"He is as mad as a March hare."

"I must follow him through thick and thin."

"There is no love lost between us."

"In the night all cats are gray."

"All is not gold that glisters."

"I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes."

"Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good."

"[Everything] ideal has a natural basis and everything natural an ideal development."

"Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind."

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."

"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"The highest form of vanity is love of fame."

"The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is a queen, infinitely fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice."

"To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love."

"It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation."

"Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate."

"What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art."

"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."