Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry […]
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Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind? Great short quote and quotation by: Vladimir Nabokov , US (Russian-born) author & translator (1899 – 1977)
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. Great short quote and quotation by: William James , US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 – […]
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Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force… If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must […]
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With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt… because love is an amazing feeling. Great short quote and quotation by: Britney Spears , American singer (1981 – )
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. Great short quote and quotation by: Horace, Odes , Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC – 8 BC)
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. Great short quote and quotation by: William Hazlitt , English essayist (1778 – 1830)
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. Great short quote and quotation by: May Sarton ,
Women should be obscene and not heard. Great short quote and quotation by: Groucho Marx , US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 – 1977)
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge , English critic & poet (1772 – 1834)
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Great short quote and quotation by: Mark Twain , US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. Great short quote and quotation by: Edna Ferber , US author (1887 – 1968)