| There are 39051 quotations | |
You can also search for a word.
| Or search for author: |
|
|
| Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| I am willing to love all mankind, except an American. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| America is a mistake, a giant mistake. | Sigmund Freud | 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis |
| America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. | Sigmund Freud | 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis |
| The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ''The trouble with this country is...'' | Sinclair Lewis | 1885-1951, First American Novelist to win the Nobel Prize for literature |
| America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, ''What is he?'' But ''What can he do?'' | Source Unknown | |
| There are no second acts in American lives. | Source Unknown | |
| On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time. | Source Unknown | |
| American is a very difficult language mixed with English. | Source Unknown | |
| America is a willingness of the heart. | Source Unknown | |
|
| The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. | Theodore Roosevelt | 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA |
| The American people abhor a vacuum. | Theodore Roosevelt | 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA |
| The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad. | Umberto Eco | 1929-, Italian Novelist and critic |
| The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone. | Vance Palmer | 1885-1959, Australian Author, Poet |
| God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. | W. H. Auden | 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet |
| America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick. | Walter Abish | Author |
| America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing. | Will Rogers | 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor |
| America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. | William S. Burroughs | 1914-1997, American Writer |
| America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers. | William S. Burroughs | 1914-1997, American Writer |
| The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. | Woodrow T. Wilson | 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA |
|
| Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. | Woodrow T. Wilson | 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA |
| America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. | Woodrow T. Wilson | 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA |
| No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. | Wyndham Lewis | 1882-1957, British Author, Painter |
| I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum. | Wyndham Lewis | 1882-1957, British Author, Painter |
| Building a better you is the first step to building a better America. | Zig Ziglar | American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker |
| The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. | A. E. Housman | 1859-1936, British Poet, Classical Scholar |
| In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer --the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. | A. J. P. Taylor | 1906-1990, British Historian |
| To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. | Abraham H. Maslow | 1908-1970, American Psychologist |
| Whatever you are, be a good one. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
|
| I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck. | Adam Duritz | 1965-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| Plodding wins the race. | Aesop | 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist |
| Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. | African Proverb | Sayings of African Origin |
| I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. | Agatha Christie | 1891-1976, British Mystery Writer |
| All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
| During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an irreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
|
| It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. | Albert Gyorgyi | |
| Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. | Alexander Graham Bell | 1847-1922, British-born American Inventor of Telephone |
| We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. | Alexander Hamilton | 1757-1804, American Statesman |
| Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. | Alexis Carrel | 1873-1944, French Biologist |
| Man knows more than he understands. | Alfred Adler | 1870-1937, Austrian Psychiatrist |
| When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row. | Alice Paul | 1885-1977, American Feminist, Social Reformer |
| We can invent only with memory. | Alphonse Karr | |
| Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. | Althea Gibson | 1927-, American Tennis Player |
Quotes pages: 1151 ~ 1200
|
