(265 quotes found)
“He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee does bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe.”
William Shakespeare
“Many great things indeed have been achieved by those who chose not to leap into the mainstream”
Joan Mondale
“If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.”
Kahlil Gibran
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.”
Vita Sackville-West
“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.”
William Orville Douglas
“What is wanted / whether this is admitted or not / is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.”
Carl Van Vechten
“Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world”
Henry Louis Mencken
“This indeed is a safe refuge, it is the refuge supreme. It is the refuge whereby one is freed from all suffering.”
Buddha
“I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.”
David Hume