Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

8803 Writer Quotes

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

Terrible World True Lies
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”

Build Destroy Task Years
  Favorite Make wallpaper
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
Look Forward Likely Farther
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Enemy Good Something Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.”

Finance Agree Sound Everything
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

Hell Going Keep You
  Favorite Make wallpaper

This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Lesson Great Yield Enemy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.”

Duty Safe Right Fear
  Favorite Make wallpaper
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Honest Important Right Thing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

Look Down Equal Treat
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”

Never Organ Room Discussion
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Democracy Voter Argument Against
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Defend Cost Fight Surrender
  Favorite Make wallpaper
“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”
Adequacy Standard What All
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

Signal Control Policy Yeild
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism Philosophy Failure Ignorance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”

War Peace Good Win
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Healthy Citizen Assets Country
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”

Best Enough Require Sometime
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finis

Trials Battle Fail Weak
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

Men Stumble Truth Hurry
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

Great Strides Resolute Purpose
  Favorite Make wallpaper
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Shall Show But Mercy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Success Courage Failure Final
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.”

Simple Freedom Honour Mercy
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Ready Learn Being Taught
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.”

Duty Wisdom Trade Character
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

Miseries Capitalism Socialism Virtue
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”

Begin Eagle Silent Parrot
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

History Intend Write Kind
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
Reflect Season Christmas Rejoice
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

Politics Ability Explain Happen
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.”

Important Point Clever Driver
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

Plans Spacious Energy Save
  Favorite Make wallpaper
All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me
Alcohol Take Out Say
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

Drunk Morning Sobber Ugly
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Success Failure Another Loss
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

Courage Quality Human Right
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
Man Himself Accept Negative
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”

Power Grow Over Except
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

Greatest Lesson Life Right
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

Malice Truth Attack Ignorance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.”

Broad Short Word Best
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
  Favorite Make wallpaper
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Courage Stand Speak Listen
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Journey Discourage Climb Progress
  Favorite Make wallpaper
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Regulation Destroy Respect Law
  Favorite Make wallpaper