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

" Quotes and Sayings About de

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Demand Special Gift Touch
  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

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Something Infinite Always Outside
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Differ Much Dead Living
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Happy Life Virtue Amusement
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Ideal Bear Dignity Grace
  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
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Regulation Destroy Respect Law
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

Precious Truth Wartime Should
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Ultimate Life Power Survival
  Favorite Make wallpaper

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Reason Mother Devote Children
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

Certain Prodded Those Anything
  Favorite Make wallpaper
To love someone is to identify with them.
Love Identify Someone Them
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Better Wonderful Fair Price
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Only when the tide goes out to do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Tide Discover Naked When
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Help tomorrow, act today. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Help Today Someone Planted
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Shade Today Tree Plant
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

Can't Make Deal Person
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

Stock Market Money Patience
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.
Fear Investor Bargain Friend
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Live Deed Breath Figure
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Delight Solitude Wild Beast
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Think it over, think it under.
Think Over Under
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Time Enemy Wonderful Mediocre
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.

Someone Romantic Market Investor
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.

Stock Understand Market Content
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Invest People Count Realistic
  Favorite Make wallpaper
When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
Trade Profit Forced Choose
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it. In stating this opinion, we define risk, using dictionary terms, as “the possibility of loss or injury.

Business Economy Buying Possibility
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.

Tide Learn Swimming Naked
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
Forecast Future Nothing Deal
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

Piglet Though Small Heart
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Stand Bridge Bottom Beneath
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

Value Along Listen Hear
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Little Other Make Difference
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

Past History Liberian Richest
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Pleasure Crowd Intellect Temperament
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You shouldn’t own common stocks if a 50% decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

Common Stock Value Decrease
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.
Culture Rule Organization Behaves
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Having first-rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

Important People Report Team
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

Independent Marry Rich Poor
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

Disdain People True Mind
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

Hunger Descendant Temper Have
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
Traveling Desire Cross Boundaries
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Truth Speak. Force Declare
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Intimate Gold Explore Describe
  Favorite Make wallpaper
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, descend the many memories of pain.
Vision Night Descend Pain
  Favorite Make wallpaper

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Truth Certain Moment Judge
  Favorite Make wallpaper