RED QUOTES

• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• People only see what they are prepared to see.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.
  ~ Edgar Lee Masters ~
• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
  ~ Sir Walter Scott ~
• In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
  ~ Madonna Ciccone ~
• Writing is all about creativity. One can never be considered as wrong. As long as it's creative and makes sense... it is right.
  ~ Julie Rose Hlongoane ~
• Love hatches by time, nourished by moments covered by mesmerizing smiles, but yet it is easily lost.
  ~ Felix Menda ~
• Everything in Abundance is a Waste of it, Everything in Scarcity is not cared about, and everything in quantity is not always used.
  ~ Palash Jain ~
• Say you love me, say you care about me but don't expect no incredulity if you don't show it.
  ~ Laurie Lae ~
• I took the mic, shivered a bit, that gave me confidence.
  ~ Perez Bulinda ~
• Credit does build relationship, a debt always binds the bond.
  ~ Perez Bulinda ~
• The hidden pain in our heart is more dangerous than an open wound. And the impact from within is outrageous compared from the external one.
  ~ Peterson Maru ~
• Have your sacred dreams and follow your destiny believing that victory requires Patience.
  ~ Abdellah Salam ~
• There is nothing great that I have done to be remembered, but I do all the little things that you do not see to remember.
  ~ Norbu Dorji ~
• They will try only to point out flaws in you. They will never dare to appreciate the incredible person, as you are. Don't let them think that they can stop you by doing this. You are unstoppable, show this to the world.
  ~ Sana Mushtaq ~
• When I depart the realm of the terrestrial, for the splendour of the celestial, do not bury my remains in the valley of the kings. For robbers would move my bones in search of gold rings. I detest sharing the glory of the blue-bloods with them in death. But I would like my molded clay buried in the worm infested earth, where it would nourish both worm and field, and help moisture give life to mother earth's withered yield.
  ~ Joseph Ogbonna ~
• You can make any insult normal to you by giving it another meaning because, nothing was bad before it was considered bad.
  ~ Okidi Gabriel Ronald ~
• Frequent prayers does not mean that the first in time was not answered. For it is a reassurance of trust in God.
  ~ Sirlanto Sirlanto ~
• I adjust my hand letting my pen take over It fills the page with combined thoughts that make more sense when on paper Taking my brain places it's never been, like a world no one else has entered.
  ~ Anaya Camara ~
• Suicide is a demonic manipulation that is geared towards populating hell and depopulating heaven. Say no to suicide.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• Marriage is not for boys. Marriage is for matured minds who are willing to forgive at all times.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• Beating your wife before your children makes you a monster, and as time goes on their fear and respect for you will turn to hatred.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• A magical of success is powered by persistence.
  ~ Gabriel Oluwalana ~
• It's a world of preys and predators, When the going gets tough Do we run or fight like gladiators?
  ~ Ajiboye Temitopelodobaba ~
• Success taste better when shared.
  ~ Esumba Sarah Chidinma ~
• It is only a fool that will predict where the ants will sleep.
  ~ Chinwendu Emmanuel Rays ~
• A little hurt now, a single drop shed. A little change in your behavior was enough to rip my heart into shreds.
  ~ Priyoshi Kundu ~
• Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
  ~ Joseph Campbell ~
• You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.
  ~ George Gordon Byron ~
• Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
  ~ George Macdonald ~
• Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
  ~ George Meredith ~
• When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• When Character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. inspirational quotes
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
  ~ Boris Pasternak ~
• What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears
  ~ John Ruskin ~
• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.
  ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
  ~ Christopher Morley ~
• There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
  ~ Christopher Morley ~
• There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
  ~ Jean Cocteau ~
• The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
  ~ Gelett Burgess ~
• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
  ~ Gelett Burgess ~
• The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
  ~ Edwin Markham ~
• The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
  ~ Coventry Patmore ~
• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
  ~ Robert Southey ~
• The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
  ~ Sir Philip Sidney ~
• The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
  ~ John Ruskin ~
• The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.
  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~
• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
  ~ Dorothy Parker ~
• The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
  ~ Bertolt Brecht ~
• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
  ~ W. H. Auden ~
• Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
  ~ W. H. Auden ~
• Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
  ~ George Herbert ~
• Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
  ~ John Burroughs ~
• Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
  ~ Charles Baudelaire ~
• Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.
  ~ D. H. Lawrence ~
• One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
  ~ Jane Austen ~
• Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.
  ~ Archibald Macleish ~
• Of all the Gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of Heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
  ~ George Gordon Byron ~
• Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~