QUOTES OF THE MOMENT
Key: "Quote" [author] | [relevant subjects] | original source

"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."

[Blaise Pascal] | [Emotion, Reason]


"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."

[Lord Acton] | [Liberty] | from The History of Freedom in Antiquity


"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth."

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton] | [Truth, Vanity]


"In a separation, it is the one who is not really in love who says the most tender things."

[Marcel Proust] | [Love]


"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."

[Arthur Conan Doyle] | [Insightful, Oxymoronic] | from “A Case of Identity” in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes


"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

[Mark Twain] | [Advice, Humorous]


"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."

[Ulysses S. Grant] | [Friendship, Presidential]


"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry: prose—words in their best order; poetry—the best words in their best order."
[Samuel Taylor Coleridge] | [Poetry, Writing] | from Table Talk, 12 July 1827


"Silence is the unbearable repartee."

[G.K. Chesterton] | [Silence]


"Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous."

[Ambrose Bierce] | [Curmudgeonly, Friendship] | The Devil's Dictionary


"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today."

[Lewis Carroll] | [Nonsense, Oxymoronic] | Through the Looking Glass