Quotes of: Poe Keyword

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle. But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it.

Girish Kohli

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

George Henry Lewes

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

George Henry Lewes

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

George Henry Lewes

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Gerald Massey

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

Guru Nanak

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

Guru Nanak

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Guru Nanak

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

Guru Nanak

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Guru Nanak

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

George Oppen

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Hilaire Belloc

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Honore de Balzac

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Honore de Balzac

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Honore de Balzac

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Honore de Balzac

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Honore de Balzac

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Honore de Balzac

The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

Honore de Balzac

La solitude est une belle chose; mais il faut quelqu'un pour vous dire que la solitude est une belle chose.

Honore de Balzac