Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live. Great short quote and […]
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. Great short quote and quotation by: Montesquieu ,
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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife. Great short quote and quotation by: Clare Booth Luce , US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 – 1987)
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park […]
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness. Great short quote and quotation by: Oprah Winfrey , US actress & television talk show host (1954 – )
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty. Great short quote and quotation by: Benjamin Franklin , US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? Great short quote and quotation by: Frank Herbert, Dune , US science fiction novelist (1920 – 1986)
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the “unconscious.” There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our “heart” or intuition, another. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert ,
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Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. Great short quote and quotation by: Homer, The Iliad , Greek epic […]
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To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Walter Scott , Scottish author & novelist […]
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Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. Great short quote and quotation by: Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved ,