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13535 quotesNothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
Ingratitude
Decimus Magnus Ausonius
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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Character
Decimus Magnus Ausonius
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Income
Jane Austen
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Neighbors
Jane Austen
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Work
Jane Austen
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Optimism
Jane Austen
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Ridicule
Jane Austen
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Pleasure
Jane Austen
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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
Cities and City Life
Jane Austen
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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Reserve
Jane Austen
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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Nature
Jane Austen
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Weather
Jane Austen
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Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Tears
Alfred Austin
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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
Ideas
Milton Avery
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Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
Law and Lawyers
Azarias
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Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Mariano Azuela
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No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
Grammar
Isaac Babel
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Imagination
Lauren Bacall
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To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
Impossibility
John Bach
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Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours
Possibilities
Richard Bach
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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Books - Reading
Richard Bach
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Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.
Mission
Richard Bach
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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
Truth
Richard Bach
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Family
Richard Bach
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Belief
Richard Bach
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun