To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish author (1850 – 1894)
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Louis Stevenson , Scottish author (1850 – 1894)
Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday. Great short quote and quotation by: Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown) , Quotations by unknown authors
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Too much of a good thing is wonderful. Great short quote and quotation by: Mae West , US movie actress (1892 – 1980)
Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Collier ,
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]
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We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because […]
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 […]
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We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet […]
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Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey – Preface , Irish dramatist, […]
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
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