Author Quotes

Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Agatha Christie

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

José Bergamín

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

William Ralph Inge

The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

G. K. Chesterton

Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

There are times when Science does not satisfy.

Rudyard Kipling

Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin showed us that they were our cousins.

George Bernard Shaw

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you are going away.

I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now

Emily Dickinson

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Lady Margaret Sackville

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

L. Sprague de Camp

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863.

William Faulkner

I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
had made him fugitive; he was the first
to journey from the coasts of Troy as far
as Italy and the Lavinian shores
Across the lands and waters he was battered
beneath the violence of the high ones for
the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.