The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry David Thoreau , US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Great short quote and quotation by: Walter Bagehot , English economist & journalist (1826 – 1877)
afterwards, civilization, creeds, deadly, first, history, institutions, invaluable, strewn, which, whole
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. Great short quote and quotation by: Homer, The Odyssey , Greek epic poet (800 BC – 700 BC)
better, bewitching, brings, dance, forth, gently, laughing, rouses, singing, unspoken, urges, which, words
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. Great short quote and quotation by: Karl Kraus , Austrian author and journalist (1874 – 1936)
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson , English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)
Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. Great short quote and quotation by: Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958 ,
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of […]
bitter, charitable, danger, dogma, follows, inconsistency, insisting, irreligion, little, matters, profession, provided, religion, uncompromisingness, whether, which, without
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them. Great short quote and quotation by: J. Paul Getty , US oil industrialist (1892 – 1976)
always, businessmen, handsomely, opportunities, profit, recognize, seize, there, through, which
Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. Great short quote and quotation by: Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial , US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 – 1849)
certain, entirely, fiction, horrible, interest, legitimate, purposes, themes, there, which
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson , English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)
delightful, minds, there, tyranny, which
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail. Great short quote and quotation by: Logan Pearsall Smith , (1865 – 1946)