Famous Quotations

Our searchable collection of quotes and aphorisms aims to be the best, not the biggest. Perfect for making a convincing point at the negotiation table, in your speech or presentation.

Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon

After you give advice, completely detach yourself from the result or from the acceptance of it.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
Henry David Thoreau

All sorrows can be borne if we tell a story about them.
Isak Denisen

All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Juvenal

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence and then success is sure.
Mark Twain

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely is therefore a great step towards happiness.
Stendhal

Alter your stride and meet a stranger.
Peter Michael Dedes

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemmingway

Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
EE Cummings

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have, the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

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