Popular Quotes from Great Minds

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

danger

[I am] lord of myself, accountable to none.

independence

One today is worth two tomorrows.

inspiration

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

kindness

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

law

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

liberty

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

wealth

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

work

Frederick II

All religions must be tolerated...for...every man must get to heaven in his own way.

religion

French proverb

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Freud, Sigmund

The goal of all life is death.

death

Freud, Sigmund

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

dreams

Freud, Sigmund

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

happiness

Archimedes

Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth.

success

Friedman, Milton

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of

taxes

Frisch. Max

Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

change

Fromm, Erich

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love

Fromm, Erich

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ownself.

Frontinus, Julius

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

change

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

ability

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

art

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

change

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

education

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

forgiveness

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

happiness

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

inspiration

We saw the risk we took in doing good,<

risk

Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

wealth

Fuller, Margaret

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

dreams

'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.

ability

The scalded cat fears even cold water.

animals

Business is the salt of life.

business

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

friendship

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

friendship

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

happiness

All truth is not to be told at all times.

honesty

Great hopes make great men.

hope

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

husband

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.