Popular Quotes from Great Minds

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

alone

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

alone

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

change

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

change

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

courage

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

equality

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

failure

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

fear

While there's life, there's fear.

fear

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

food

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

forgiveness

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

friendship

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

future

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

happiness

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

history

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

history

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

hope

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

humor

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

imagination

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

imagination

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

imagination

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

love

Money: power at its most liquid.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

The passion for money is never fickle.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.