Pre 1950 Quotes & Sayings

It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The point of life is happiness. — Dalai Lama

If you can make her want you bad enough, she'll come after you. — Rose Wynters

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either. — Jim Sullivan

We're on a tight leash. We gotta do things by the book so no shooting yourself or trying to blow me up this time."
"I thought we agreed that we weren't gonna talk about that anymore. — S.L.J. Shortt

unspoken bond existed between the residents of Chapel Isle. The island was the same as the nets its fishermen cast at sea, a tight lattice of people tied by lives lived closely, knotted by friendship. Being here meant Abigail could become a part of that net as well, which was — Ellen Block

We aren't born for ourselves alone. Wells couldn't abandon the others after the horror of that day. He needed to get back to help bury Priya, to comfort those who wouldn't be able to sleep. To restrain those whose grief and fear might turn into a need for vengeance. — Kass Morgan

When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question. — Stefanie Schneider

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love. — Jean De La Bruyere

Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. — Craig Venter

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism — Ibn Warraq

It proved difficult, when it came to it, to part from her mother with a bright goodbye
though, after all, not that difficult, because this was only the beginning, and there were still two or three more goodbyes to come. For the same reason, as she made the walk down to Camberwell and along the Walworth Road, though she tried to gaze at everything in the knowledge that she might soon be taken away from it, she couldn't keep it up, she felt mannered and inauthentic
like an actress, she thought, playing a character to whom the doctor had just delivered the fatal diagnosis. — Sarah Waters