Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tryon Edwards

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Wilt Chamberlain

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

Zig Ziglar

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zebulon Pike

He was a man, he always performed his promises.

John Adams

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Libba Bray

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

Louis Sachar

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Wallace Stevens

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

Wallace Stevens

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

William J. Brennan

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

William J. Clinton

I can spend your money better than you can.

William J. Clinton

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Will Durant

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Will Durant

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Robert Nozick

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.