Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

Francis Quarles

My mind's my kingdom.

Francis Quarles

If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Hugh Howey

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

Horace

A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

Horace Mann

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

Horace Mann

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

Horace Mann

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

Homer

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

Homer

Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

Homer

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Homer

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

Homer

First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!

Homer

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

Harry Reid

They've lost their minds.

Harry S Truman

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.

Harold Bloom

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

J. Michael Straczynski

For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me... a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.

J. Michael Straczynski

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

J. Michael Straczynski

I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

J. M. Coetzee

His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72).

J. K. Rowling

Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!

J. K. Rowling

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...

J. K. Rowling

I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses...

J. K. Rowling

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

H. L. Mencken

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation

H. L. Mencken

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

H. L. Mencken

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.