Quotes by Writers

Christmas is over and Business is Business. Franklin Pierce Adams

Christmas Business Over

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. Fredrik Bajer

Great Character Spiritual Man Result Power Other Others Gifts Great Man Qualities Because However His Influence Mean Who Deserves

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. Gail Sheehy

Light Feeling Finally Top Those Sees Open New Another Mastery Gets Closing Door Then Skills Even Satisfying Profoundly Set

I think that being a housewife is the most noble profession there is. Gavin McInnes

Think Noble Most Housewife Being Profession

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. George A. Sheehan

Happiness Pleasure Something Struggling Accomplishing Different Enduring

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. George Mikes

Alone He Queue Orderly Forms Even Englishman

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town. George Saunders

Time You Game Other Other Kids Rampant Kid Kids Ours Dresses Parent Only Sack Armani Town Like Becoming Materialism His Cloth Want Ascendant Who Fast

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Before Way Only Miss Catching Sure Train

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man Hide Cosmos About Head Smallest His Hole

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love Humanity Believe Those Would Would-Be Had Perhaps Itself Gods Any Often Cannot Them Who Assert Sufficient Thinkers

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good Religion You Joke About Test Whether

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Change Will Stay Want Things

The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination. Guy Davenport

Beer World Wine Bicycle Before Imagination Philip Bach Destiny Though John Shakespeare Horse Glass Between French Trade Historical German Difference Center Mug Moment World Trade Necessity World Trade Center

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves. Guy Finley

Love Old Compassion Will Sacrifice Resolve Humility Secrets Ourselves About Share Know Sorrows Within Reveal Then Us Awaits Ever

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. Guy de Maupassant

Religion Patriotism Kind Hatched Egg Which Wars

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. H. L. Mencken

Democracy Enjoy Immensely Idiotic Confess Hence Amusing