Tag: Literature

Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

In general, every country has the language it deserves. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Life and death have been lacking in my life. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Life itself is a quotation. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Reality is not always probable, or likely. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

The central problem of novel-writing is causality. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

10 Famous Wisdom Quotes

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

1. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford

2. Where there is love, there is pain. – Spanish Proverb

3. It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

4. Comedy is an escape not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. – Christopher Fry

5. I like a man who grins when he fights. – Winston Churchill

6. Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile. – Deng Ming-Dao

7. Anyone can hate. It costs to love. – John Williamson

8. True is the grief you carry without witnesses. – Marcus Martialis

9. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx

10. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – H. L. Mencken

Funny Sarcastic Quotes

Posted on January 27, 2011 by

“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you a member of Congress, but I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.” – A. B. Evans

“You don’t say civilization don’t advance – for every war they kill you a new way.” – Will Rogers

“The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.” – Colin Jarman

“Critics are the stupid who discuss the wise.” – Anonymous

“A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn’t like” – Anonymous

“I love criticism just as long as it’s unqualified praise.” – Noel Coward

“A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.” – Richard Le Gallienne

“The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.” – Oscar Wilde

“When an opera singer sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.” – Victor Borge

“The fastest way to a man’s heart is through his chest.” – Roseanne Arnold

“The power with her is that she lacks the power of conversation, but not the power of speech.” – George Bernard Shaw

“I know she is outspoken, but by who?” – Dorothy Parker

“You don’t know a woman, until you’ve met her in court.” – Norman Mailer

“Women are like elephants to me; they’re nice to look at, but I wouldn’t want to own one.” – W.C. Fields

“Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friends.” – Marcel Achard

“A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.” – Anonymous

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”- Charlotte Whitton

“A man’s love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor

“Adam came first, but men always do.” – Anonymous

“If they can put one man on the moon, why can’t they put them all there?” – Anonymous

“Women have their faults. Men have only two: Everything they say. Everything they do.” – Anonymous

“Japanese are extremely good imitators and they so polite, they even copy the mistakes.” – Earl Scrugge

“If you’re gong to Paris you would do well to remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.” – Fran Lebowits

Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain Hilarious Quotes

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

I love hilarious quotes, especially from great people, like Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. Let me share with you some of them:

“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde

“Journalism is unreadable, literature is never read.” – Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” –Oscar Wilde

“A true friend stabs you in the front.”-Oscar Wilde

“It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one’s enemies. It is the successes of one’s friends that are hard to bear.” – Oscar Wilde

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” – Oscar Wilde

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde

“I couldn’t help it. I can resist everything except temptation.” – Oscar Wilde

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.” – Oscar Wilde

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” –Oscar Wilde

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” –Oscar Wilde

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” – Oscar Wilde

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde

“One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.” – Oscar Wilde

“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.” – Oscar Wilde

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“When angry count four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain

“Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” – Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” –Mark Twain

“In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.” – Mark Twain

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” –Mark Twain

“Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.” – Mark Twain

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain

“It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain

Famous Quotes by Women

Posted on December 30, 2010December 30, 2010 by

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. – Marianne Williamson

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anaïs Nin

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson

Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. – Anaïs Nin

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. – Anaïs Nin

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. – Louisa May Alcott

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. – Helen Keller

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. – Helen Keller

Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. – Mother Teresa

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

Dreams are necessary to life. – Anais Nin

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anaïs Nin

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]

People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anaïs Nin

It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn’t have the power to say Yes. – Eleanor Roosevelt

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. – Anaïs Nin

Motivational Quotes

Posted on December 27, 2010December 27, 2010 by

– “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton

– “If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” – St. Clement of Alexandra

– “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder

– “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

– “Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.” – Johann Gottfried Von Herder

– “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

– “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” – Voltaire

– “Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.” – Benjamin Disraeli

– “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” – Unknown

– “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

– “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William B. Sprague

– “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” – Samuel Johnson

– “Fortune favors the brave.” – Publius Terence

– “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

– “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

– “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

– “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” – Winston Churchill

– “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “For hope is but the dream of those that wake.” – Matthew Prior

– “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” – Lucretius

– “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” – Mary Shelley

Harry Potter’s Top 10 Quotes

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

1) “Harry, don’t go picking a row with Malfoy, don’t forget, he’s a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you…”
“Wow, I wonder what it’d be like to have a difficult life?” said Harry sarcastically.

2) “Proud?” said Harry. “Are you crazy? All those times I could’ve died, and I didn’t manage it? They’ll be furious….”

3) “Listen, if you [Fred and George] don’t take it [the gold], I’m throwing it down the drain. I don’t want it and I don’t need it. But I could do with a few laughs. We could all do with a few laughs. I’ve got a feeling we’re going to need them more than usual before long.”

4) “There’s no need to call me sir Professor.”

5) “Pity you can’t attach an extra arm to yours [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.”

6) “I like a quiet life, you know me.”

7) “She’s Ron’s sister.
But she’s ditched Dean!
She’s still Ron’s sister.
I’m his best mate!
That’ll make it worse.
If I talked to him first-
He’d hit you.
What if I don’t care?
He’s your best mate!”

8) “You know your mother, Malfoy? The expression on her face – like she’s got dung under her nose? Is she like that all the time or just because you were with her?”

9) “Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!”

10) “He was my mum and dad’s best friend. He’s a convicted murderer, but he’s broken out of wizard prison and he’s on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though…keep up with news…check if I’m happy…”