3963808 Quotes & Sayings

These are the days of bootleg love. — James Thurber

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future. — Carl L. Becker

Words, like flowers, have their colors too. — Ernest Rhys

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . wherever life is dear he is a demigod. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I thought, Hey, maybe these people shouldn't be making up holidays to drink more. Maybe if they drank less they might be able to title their newspaper articles more specifically. For example, I would title this last article Drunk Driver Hits Drunk Walker Drunkety-Drunk I'm So Drunk. — Mike Birbiglia

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed.
The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species.
speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962 — John Steinbeck

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse. — Gijs De Vries

People who were normally friendly followed orders because they didn't want to upset others, while those who were described as unfriendly stuck up for themselves. — Anonymous