Quotes by Writers

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. Niccolo Machiavelli

Destroyed Unarmed About Prophets Armed Been Victorious Hence

The influence of a woman can be very great, especially now, in the present order or disorder of society, in which there is a kind of spiritual chill, a kind of moral fatigue, demanding reanimation. In order to produce this reanimation, the cooperation of woman is indispensable. Nikolai Gogol

Great Spiritual Woman Chill Demanding Society Fatigue Kind Moral Indispensable Very Influence Order Which Produce Disorder Cooperation Now Present

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Wisdom Knowledge Speak Province Privilege Listen

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Old Men Because Quit Grow Playing

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. Orson Scott Card

War Government Me Light Matter Will Values Important Lose Say Threatens Democrat Domination Endangered Role America Nations Hold Republican Many Whom Among Gravely

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential. Paul Di Filippo

Death Good Age Natural Destruction Old Sickness Three Old Age Natural Disasters Good Place Pretty Pretty Good Betrayal More Potential Buddha Tale Disasters Woke Tragic Up Heartbreak Get Crafting Human Place Waste Specific Start Need

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. Peggy Noonan

Politics Somehow Something Obsessed Beware Missing Empty Leaves Up Often Politically Hole Place Interesting Them Use Natures Fill Bright

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. Publilius Syrus

Regret Silent Never Spoken Been Often

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them. Ralph Marston

Yourself Path Become Difficult Plenty Allow Obstacles Them Your

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. Ray Bradbury

Work Love Hard Work Good You Practice Before Thousand Thousand Times Something True Know Heard Off Times Want Then Hard Pays

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Ray Bradbury

Future Past Libraries No Future Without

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. Ray Bradbury

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. Richard Aldington

Patriotism Own Nationalism Silly His

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. Robert A. Heinlein

Troublemakers Society Goes Gets Rid Downhill

Never insult anyone by accident. Robert A. Heinlein

Accident Never Insult Anyone

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. Robert A. Heinlein

Man Laugh Another Theology Belly

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. Robert A. Heinlein

Love Love Is Sex Healthy Merely Exercise Without

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense. Robert Anton Wilson

Sense Some Unreal Real Meaningless Phenomena

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. Robert Anton Wilson

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct. Robert Anton Wilson

Government Business Big Correct Both Big Business Left View Right