Writing Prompts Based On Quotes & Sayings

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat. — Charles Caleb Colton

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet. — Paul Theroux

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding ... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy — Kahlil Gibran

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. — Abraham Lincoln

He's in the military, serving overseas in Afghanistan."
"Well done. You're marrying an American hero," A.J. says.
"I guess I am."
"I hate those guys," he says. "They make me feel totally inadequate. Tell me something shitty about him so that I feel better. — Gabrielle Zevin

Leave the rest to the gods. — Horace

If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level. — Romano Prodi

Liberty is not a right but a duty. — Ezra Pound

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently. — John Piper

For the Lord watches over the way
of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish. — Anonymous

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise. — George Mason

Information wants to be free,because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. — Stewart Brand

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house. — Thomas Jefferson

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices. — Betty Buckley