Life Quotes

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Voltaire

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

Voltaire

These marranos go wherever there is money to be made.

Voltaire

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Voltaire

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Voltaire

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Voltaire

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Voltaire

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

Voltaire

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

Vālmīki

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Do you believe," said Candide, "that men have always slaughtered each other as they do today, that they've always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates and thieves, weak, fickle, cowardly, envious, greedy, drunken, miserly, ambitious, bloodthirsty, ...

Voltaire

Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.

Vince Lombardi

And there Like I thought I knew And aint life a bitch Was his head on a silver platter

Valerie

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.

Victor LaValle