| 1600 |
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1599 |
You can make anything by writing. |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1598 |
Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner o |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1597 |
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1596 |
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1595 |
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it. |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1594 |
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1593 |
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1592 |
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1591 |
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1590 |
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we sho |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1589 |
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1588 |
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultim |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1586 |
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1585 |
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wonderi |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1584 |
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – a |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1582 |
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival valu |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1581 |
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1580 |
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the m |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1579 |
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God |
C.S. Lewis |
| 1578 |
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit. |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1577 |
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it rema |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1576 |
I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1575 |
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because t |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1574 |
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but e |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1572 |
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1571 |
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1570 |
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. Th |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1569 |
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1568 |
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream. |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1567 |
I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die. |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1566 |
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1565 |
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our poli |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1564 |
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most disco |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1563 |
But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; th |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1562 |
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster th |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1561 |
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1560 |
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, to |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1559 |
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card say |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1558 |
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions ab |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1557 |
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1556 |
Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me what makes |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1555 |
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1554 |
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1553 |
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1552 |
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1551 |
Writing is the geometry of the soul. |
Plato |
| 1550 |
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. |
Plato |
| 1549 |
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful. |
Plato |
| 1548 |
Books are immortal sons defying their sires. |
Plato |
| 1547 |
To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one |
Plato |
| 1546 |
The beginning is the most important part of the work. |
Plato |
| 1545 |
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person |
Plato |
| 1544 |
An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the |
Plato |
| 1543 |
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an acc |
Plato |
| 1542 |
Courage is knowing what not to fear. |
Plato |
| 1541 |
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her cul |
Plato |
| 1540 |
Love is the pursuit of the whole. |
Plato |
| 1539 |
Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "righ |
Plato |
| 1538 |
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. |
Plato |
| 1537 |
You should not honor men more than truth. |
Plato |
| 1536 |
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same th |
Plato |
| 1535 |
Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil. |
Plato |
| 1534 |
There is truth in wine and children |
Plato |
| 1533 |
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. |
Plato |
| 1532 |
Death is not the worst that can happen to men. |
Plato |
| 1531 |
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music chang |
Plato |
| 1530 |
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them. |
Plato |
| 1529 |
good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people w |
Plato |
| 1528 |
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings |
Plato |
| 1527 |
Only the dead have seen the end of war. |
Plato |
| 1526 |
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination |
Plato |
| 1525 |
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tire |
Jane Austen |
| 1524 |
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them |
Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1523 |
You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are no |
Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1522 |
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. |
Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1520 |
You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the sam |
Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1519 |
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to wa |
Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1518 |
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Sai |
Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1516 |
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. |
Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1515 |
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. |
Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1514 |
I don't want to die without any scars. |
Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1513 |
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. |
Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1509 |
for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. |
Mark Twain |
| 1508 |
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly nati |
Mark Twain |
| 1507 |
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. |
Mark Twain |
| 1506 |
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for wh |
Mark Twain |
| 1504 |
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is coward |
Mark Twain |
| 1503 |
It is easier to stay out than to get out. |
Mark Twain |
| 1502 |
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has o |
Mark Twain |
| 1501 |
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool f |
Mark Twain |
| 1500 |
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist |
Mark Twain |
| 1499 |
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't. |
Mark Twain |
| 1498 |
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session |
Mark Twain |
| 1497 |
The lack of money is the root of all evil. |
Mark Twain |
| 1496 |
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard a |
Mark Twain |
| 1495 |
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like peop |
Mark Twain |
| 1494 |
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. |
Mark Twain |
| 1493 |
Write what you know. |
Mark Twain |
| 1492 |
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents |
Mark Twain |