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708 quotesWe are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Wish and Wishing
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
Sleep
William Golding
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
Money
Oliver Goldsmith
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Ambition
Oliver Goldsmith
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Wisdom
Oliver Goldsmith
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Success
Samuel Goldwyn
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A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Enemies
Baltasar Gracian
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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
Action
Dennis Green
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His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.
Jokes and Jokers
Graham Greene
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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
Feminism
Germaine Greer
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It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
Liberty
M. Grundler
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Imagination
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
Politicians and Politics
Edward F. Halifax
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
Painters and Painting
Hamerton
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I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.
Uncategorised
Alexander Hamilton
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Caution
A. W. Hare
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Heaven
David Hare
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry and Poets
David Hare
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Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
Committees and Meetings
Richard Harkness
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We have no commission from God to police the world.
Diplomacy
Benjamin Harrison
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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Happiness
Hasidic Proverb
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Devil
Vance Havner
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Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Adolescence
Anthony Hope Hawkins
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Accuracy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
Inertia
William Hazlitt
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun