My Favourite Quotes, chosen by MyShatteringHeart at Find Quotations

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
Unknown Best?
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Unknown Best?
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
Unknown Best?
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Unknown Best?
Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
Unknown Best?
Fools rush in where fools have been before.
Unknown Best?
He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.
Unknown Best?
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein Best?
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein Best?
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb Best?
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake Best?
Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan Best?
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato Best?
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein Best?
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer Best?
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi Best?
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb Best?
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop Best?
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
Persian Proverb Best?
Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
H. L. Mencken Best?
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
William Shakespeare Best?
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Chinese Proverb Best?
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates Best?
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Unknown Best?
Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
Unknown Best?
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Unknown Best?
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Best?
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African Proverb Best?
To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.
Unknown Best?
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler Best?
Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Best?
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare Best?
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Unknown Best?
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Chinese Proverb Best?
He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.
Unknown Best?
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare Best?
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
Unknown Best?
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
Unknown Best?
It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.
Unknown Best?
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
Unknown Best?
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
Unknown Best?
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
Unknown Best?
Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
Unknown Best?
Tempt not a desperate man.
William Shakespeare Best?
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
Unknown Best?
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
Ovid Best?
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou Best?
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
Unknown Best?
The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
Unknown Best?
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Unknown Best?
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
Unknown Best?
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
Unknown Best?
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen Best?
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare Best?
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare Best?
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Best?
He is richest who is content with the least.
Socrates Best?
Solutions- The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is.
Latin Proverb Best?
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein Best?
If it is to be, it is up to me.
Unknown Best?
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
Unknown Best?
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.
Unknown Best?
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Unknown Best?
Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder 'What happened?'
Unknown Best?
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields.(Irish Blessing)
Unknown Best?
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead
Unknown Best?
Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women.
Genghis Khan Best?
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man
William Shakespeare Best?
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson Best?
All's well that ends well....
William Shakespeare Best?
The wicked at heart probably know something.
Woody Allen Best?
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Best?
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Plato Best?
Never argue with a fool. Listeners can't tell which is which.
Unknown Best?
How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table.
Unknown Best?
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you.
Mark Twain Best?
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler Best?
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare Best?
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
William Shakespeare Best?
...and the possibility of developing paranoia, slight memory loss and laziness. But, it says, "the lethal dose of cannabis is a 2-kilo block dropped on your head from the 25th floor of a high-rise building. In other words - cannabis can't kill you, it is not a poison like alcohol, and not addictive like cigarettes. (from Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Drugs, but Were Afraid to Ask Your Children)
Unknown Best?
I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh, but I never thought I would look back on the laughter and cry.
Unknown Best?
Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.
Chinese Proverb Best?
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. (TV listing for the movie The Wizard of Oz in the Marin Independent Journal.)
Unknown Best?
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese Proverb Best?
By their own follies they perished, the fools.
Homer Best?
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
Homer Best?
Appearances often are deceiving.
Aesop Best?
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Aesop Best?
Slow and steady wins the race.
Aesop Best?
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop Best?
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop Best?
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
Aesop Best?
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
Aesop Best?
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Aesop Best?
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop Best?
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
Aesop Best?
While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
Aesop Best?
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
Aesop Best?
I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
Euripedes Best?
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
Euripedes Best?
Leave no stone unturned.
Euripedes Best?
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Euripedes Best?
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
Euripedes Best?
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Euripedes Best?
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle Best?
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle Best?
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle Best?
Evil draws men together.
Aristotle Best?
A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
Aristotle Best?
Men willingly believe what they wish.
William Shakespeare Best?
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace Best?
So I can't live either without you or with you.
Ovid Best?
To be loved, be lovable.
Ovid Best?
We can learn even from our enemies.
Ovid Best?
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Seneca Best?
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein Best?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare Best?
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare Best?
If music be the food of love, play on;
William Shakespeare Best?
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
William Shakespeare Best?
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
William Shakespeare Best?
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
William Shakespeare Best?
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
William Shakespeare Best?
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
William Shakespeare Best?
A plague o' both your houses!
William Shakespeare Best?
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
William Shakespeare Best?
Double, double toil and trouble;
William Shakespeare Best?
By the pricking of my thumbs,
William Shakespeare Best?
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
William Shakespeare Best?
The devil hath power
William Shakespeare Best?
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
William Shakespeare Best?
O, woe is me,
William Shakespeare Best?
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare Best?
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
William Shakespeare Best?
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
William Shakespeare Best?
I understand a fury in your words,
William Shakespeare Best?
'Tis neither here nor there.
William Shakespeare Best?
If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.
Japanese Proverb Best?
It is entirely possible to win against the enemy, it is possible, even, to kill the enemy... and still be defeated by the battle.
Walter Wangerin, Jr. Best?
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle Best?
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted.
Aesop Best?
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein Best?
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer Best?
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln Best?
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Robin Williams Best?
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein Best?
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte Best?
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy Best?
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Best?
The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)
Ovid Best?
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
Chinese Proverb Best?
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
William Shakespeare Best?
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Socrates Best?
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
Aesop Best?
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop Best?
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare Best?
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.
William Shakespeare Best?
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle Best?
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all the mischief you are able to do upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi Best?
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare Best?
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
William Shakespeare Best?
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Euripedes Best?
Your very silence shows you agree.
Euripedes Best?
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Best?
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop Best?
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid Best?
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
Ovid Best?
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
Seneca Best?
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca Best?
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
William Shakespeare Best?
Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare Best?
It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
William Shakespeare Best?
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
William Shakespeare Best?
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
William Shakespeare Best?
I wish you well and so I take my leave,
William Shakespeare Best?
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare Best?
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare Best?
I must be cruel only to be kind;
William Shakespeare Best?
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
William Shakespeare Best?
He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.
Unknown Best?
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Frederich Nietzsche Best?
I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
William Shakespeare Best?
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare Best?
I hate ingratitude more in a man
William Shakespeare Best?
The trust I have is in mine innocence,
William Shakespeare Best?
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us
Robert Burns Best?
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Aristotle Best?
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton Best?
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
William Shakespeare Best?
Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare Best?
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle Best?
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Plato Best?
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato Best?
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato Best?
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling Best?
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz Best?
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.
William Shakespeare Best?
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha Best?
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
John Dryden Best?
Great anger is more destructive than the sword
Tamil Proverb Best?
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin Best?
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato Best?
She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.
Robin Williams Best?
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
Adolf Hitler Best?
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling Best?
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
J. K. Rowling Best?
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri Best?
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist.
Unknown Best?
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
Charles Baudelaire Best?
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare Best?
It is the mind that makes the man.
Ovid Best?
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates Best?
Look before you leap.
Aesop Best?
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
Albert Einstein Best?
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
Han Suyin Best?
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein Best?
Fear is the darkroom where the Devil develops his negatives.
Gary Busey Best?
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. Rowling Best?
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our friends, but just as much to stand up to our enemies.
J. K. Rowling Best?
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Real Live Preacher Best?
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.
Real Live Preacher Best?
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore Best?
For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal.
Dante Alighieri Best?
I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
George Carlin Best?
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
J. K. Rowling Best?
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling Best?
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato Best?
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H. P. Lovecraft Best?
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. Rowling Best?
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling Best?
To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.
Prophet Mohammed Best?
You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them most plainly when we need? Your father is alive in you Harry and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him.
J. K. Rowling Best?
If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a jew.
Albert Einstein Best?
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens Best?
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire Best?
I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
William Shakespeare Best?
Come what come may,
William Shakespeare Best?
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling Best?
We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.
Mao Tse-tung Best?
If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat Love down.
William Shakespeare Best?
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle Best?
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to enemies, but even more so to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling Best?
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
Henry David Thoreau Best?
The road to true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare Best?
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.
William Shakespeare Best?
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
William Shakespeare Best?
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell Best?
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripedes Best?
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein Best?
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
Albert Einstein Best?
It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein Best?
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
Robin Williams Best?
To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling Best?
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling Best?
What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. Rowling Best?
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.
Abraham Lincoln Best?
A book holds a house of gold.
Chinese Proverb Best?
A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.
Chinese Proverb Best?
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
Native American Proverb Best?
A camel never sees its own hump.
African Proverb Best?