100% Sourced Quotations

Famous Authors

Johannes Kepler

Stephen Hawking

Anne Frank

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mother Teresa

Eva Perón

J. K. Rowling

Alexander Graham Bell

Che Guevara

Raymond Chandler

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Marcel Proust

Elizabeth II

Edgar Allan Poe

Tacitus

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Arthur Conan Doyle

Jean de La Bruyère

Plato

Samuel Johnson

Hand-picked Quotes

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem that he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Henry David Thoreau

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Johannes Kepler

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Alexander Graham Bell

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Quote Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Popular Topics

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.