[ -the Quotes ]



Showing search results for +The Quotes - 13535 quotes about +The - Dictionary Quotes
13535 quotes

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Wisdom
Nicholas Boileau

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 680 votes

Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Nations
Henry Bolingbroke

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 816 votes

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Pride
Henry Bolingbroke

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 972 votes

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Politicians and Politics
Henry Bolingbroke

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 920 votes

Forget the past and live the present hour.
Present
Sarah Knowles Bolton

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 822 votes

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Success
Erma Bombeck

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 801 votes

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Comedy and Comedians
Erma Bombeck

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 884 votes

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Exercise
Erma Bombeck

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 949 votes

Chance is the providence of adventurers.
Chance
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 797 votes

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
Organization
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 976 votes

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
Christians and Christianity
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 924 votes

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Doctors
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 901 votes

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
Leaders and Leadership
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 945 votes

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
History and Historians
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 945 votes

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
Greatness
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 864 votes

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
Peace
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 766 votes

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Promises
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 712 votes

Imagination rules the world.
Imagination
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 697 votes

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
Impossibility
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 763 votes

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.
Martyrdom
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 655 votes

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Government
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 772 votes

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Mothers
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 738 votes

Let the path be open to talent.
Direction
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 781 votes

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Decisions
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 783 votes

Occupation is the scythe of time.
Occupation
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 555 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun