Quotes You Like

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor,
for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

~ Jessamyn West
American writer (1902 - 1984)

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

- Voltaire.

“I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
― Genghis Khan

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

An old Indian told his grandchild: "In all of us there are two wolves fighting each other - one of them is fear and hatred, the other wolf is love and peace." "And who wins", asked the child. "The one we feed", answered the old Indian.

„There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.“

Benedict of Nursia

The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.

Augustinus (bishop of Hippo)

"In the jungle, the mighty jungle,
the lion sleeps tonight"

– Solomon Linda

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.


― Bernard M. Baruch

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I have an inferiority complex; but it is not a very good one.

Steven Wright

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Howard Zinn

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery,
a metaphor for a proof,
a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths,
and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

~ Paul Valery, 1895
French critic & poet (1871 - 1945)

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear."
- Al Pacino.