Quotes with ago-they

Quotes 21 till 40 of 5767.

  • Jean Cocteau I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
    - +
    +3
  • Oscar Wilde My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
    +3
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
    +2
  • George Orwell All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
    +2
  • James Baldwin Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
    - +
    +2
  • James Allen Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
    - +
    +2
  • Alan Coren Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
    Alan Coren
    English humourist, writer and satirist (1938 - 2007)
    - +
    +2
  • Mark Twain Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
    +2
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
    +2
  • Aldous Huxley Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
    - +
    +2
  • Henry David Thoreau For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
    - +
    +2
  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
    - +
    +2
  • Voltaire How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
    - +
    +2
  • Voltaire If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
    - +
    +2
  • C. S. Lewis If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
    - +
    +2
  • Sir John Lubbock In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
    - +
    +2
  • Voltaire It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
    - +
    +2
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
    +2
  • Jeanette Winterson It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
    - +
    +2
  • Charles James Fox Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
    Charles James Fox
    British statesman (1749 - 1806)
    - +
    +2
All ago-they famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 2)