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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5904)

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.
Mark Twain
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Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
Mason Cooley
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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
Mark Twain
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life they live badly who always begin to live.
Seneca the Younger
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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.
Mark Twain
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
Seneca the Younger
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Every second is of infinite value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
Seneca the Younger
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Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Seneca the Younger
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Trifling trouble find utterance deeply felt pangs are silent.
Seneca the Younger
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For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear she should mercifully choose between the two.
Jean de la Bruyere
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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Mark Twain
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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be
Mark Twain
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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Mark Twain
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Travelling, one accepts everything indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.
Elias Canetti
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Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.
Mason Cooley
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain
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