Quotes


These are some of my favourite quotes. They are in no special order. I will be adding more as time permits, so please do check back.


When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt –

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
– Bernard Baruch –

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
– Henry Ford –

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong
– Mo Udall –

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
– Albert Camus –

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
– Sir John Denham –

Those who need more of you are those that don't mention it to you.
– Unknown –

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
– Marcus Aurelius –

Be who you are & say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter & those who matter don't mind.
– Unknown –

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
– Jessamyn West –

If you think money will do anything, then you'll probably do anything for money.
– Unknown –

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
– Robert Frost –

If you want to know who you are, it's important to know who you've been.
– Unknown –

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
– Marcus Aurelius –

Don’t argue with idiots because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
– Unknown –

A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.
– Mohammed –

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
– Edward R. Murrow –

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
– Libbie Fudim –

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
– Homer –

And this the burden of his song,
For ever used to be,
I care for nobody, not I,
If no one cares for me.
– Isaac Bickerstaffe –

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Last updated: 5th May 2014