{"id":161520,"date":"2024-11-23T14:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=161520"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:18:25","slug":"100-outstanding-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/100-outstanding-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"100 outstanding quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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100 outstanding quotes, that is 100 eminent, excellent, exceptional, famous, great, important, impressive, magnificent, special, superlative, well-known aphorisms and quotations edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown<\/a>, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).<\/span><\/p>\n

Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. (It’s not true that we have little time: the truth is that we waste a lot of it.)<\/span>
\nSeneca, De brevitate vitae, I, 3.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t overestimate the stupidity of the general public.<\/span>
\nCharles Bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

Humans are very conservative in some ways and virtually never change numerical conventions once they grow used to them. They even come to mistake them for laws of nature. <\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.<\/span>
\nDavid Benioff<\/span><\/p>\n

Death, memory, memories, these are the three fundamental key words of all human art.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Privacy is power. People cannot destroy what they do not know.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Having your head in the clouds is very comfortable, it allows you to meet only people who know how to fly.<\/span>
\nAlda Merini<\/span><\/p>\n

You shouldn’t need a stupid mass of people to confirm your value, your confidence must come from within. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

A wise man never knows all. Only fools know everything.<\/span>
\nAfrican proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

Music – it’s motivational and just makes you relax.<\/span>
\nTaika Waititi<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. <\/span>
\nVirginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who have left us are not absent, they are invisible, they keep their eyes full of glory fixed on ours full of tears.<\/span>
\nSaint Augustine<\/span><\/p>\n

Avoid people, or better don’t trust people, who don’t like you, or that are close to them.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

The history of great world leaders is often the history of human folly.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Universe doesn’t even know that you exist, therefore take it easy and relax!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

We cannot live as long as we want, and we die even if we do not want to.<\/span>
\nSaint Augustine<\/span><\/p>\n

October was always the least dependable of months <\/span>
\nfull of ghosts and shadows.<\/span>
\nJoy Fielding<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s human nature when you lose money quickly you want to make it back twice as quick. Slow down, keep focused, and stick to your strategy.<\/span>
\nIan Cassel<\/span><\/p>\n

The ability to cut a loss while it\u2019s small is a core trading skill.<\/span>
\nSteve Burns<\/span><\/p>\n

Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things. <\/span>
\nRobert E. Howard<\/span><\/p>\n

Time forbids you to go back and change the beginning, but you can proceed further on and try to change the ending. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.<\/span>
\nEden Phillpots<\/span><\/p>\n

Go boldly after what you want and expect some setbacks, some disappointments, and some rotten days. Embrace them all as a valuable part of the process and learn to say, Thank you, teacher.<\/span>
\nMark Minervini<\/span><\/p>\n

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.<\/span>
\nSaint Augustine<\/span><\/p>\n

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the constant thought of death has bothered me all my life.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

When a man can\u2019t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.<\/span>
\nViktor Frankl<\/span><\/p>\n

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.<\/span>
\nEdgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/p>\n

Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.<\/span>
\nIchabod Crane<\/span><\/p>\n

The more easily you get offended, the less intelligent you actually are.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Those we love and have lost are no longer where they were but are everywhere we are.<\/span>
\nSaint Augustine<\/span><\/p>\n

Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.<\/span>
\nPlutarch<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds true love?<\/span>
\nCount Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Halloween is opportunity to be really creative.<\/span>
\nJudy Gold<\/span><\/p>\n

Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don\u2019t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please. <\/span>
\nNiccol\u00f2 Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words. <\/span>
\nThomas More<\/span><\/p>\n

Solitude is dangerous. It\u2019s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is, you don\u2019t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.<\/span>
\nJim Carrey<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose?<\/span>
\nBram Stoker<\/span><\/p>\n

On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.<\/span>
\nNicholas Gordon<\/span><\/p>\n

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.<\/span>
\nJ.K. Rowling<\/span><\/p>\n

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.<\/span>
\nStephen King<\/span><\/p>\n

If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.<\/span>
\nDouglas Copeland<\/span><\/p>\n

Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.”<\/span>
\nElvis Duran<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.<\/span>
\nSteve Almond<\/span><\/p>\n

True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.<\/span>
\nJohn W. Gardner<\/span><\/p>\n

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.<\/span>
\nCarl von Clausewitz<\/span><\/p>\n

If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. <\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Never tell somebody everything, you might be educating an enemy.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

La medicina antica non potendo curare i malati si accontentava di resuscitare i morti.<\/span>
\nJean Charles.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.<\/span>
\nAyn Rand<\/span><\/p>\n

Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.<\/span>
\nSun Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.<\/span>
\nJean de La Fontaine<\/span><\/p>\n

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.<\/span>
\nHomer, The Iliad<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.<\/span>
\nAlexander Solzhenitsyn<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak. Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.<\/span>
\nSwami Vivekananda<\/span><\/p>\n

The literal meaning of life is wahtever you are doing that prevents you from killing yourself.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.<\/span>
\nAdam Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

So-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments<\/span><\/p>\n

Seneca<\/span><\/p>\n

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.<\/span>
\nEric Fromm<\/span><\/p>\n

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.<\/span>
\nJean de La Fontaine<\/span><\/p>\n

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.<\/span>
\nKhalil Gibran:<\/span><\/p>\n

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s always too early to quit.<\/span>
\nNorman Vincent Peale<\/span><\/p>\n

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.<\/span>
\nCarl Sandburg<\/span><\/p>\n

When you feel off, turn your body on. <\/span>
\nLift, run, train, walk.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you overthink, turn your body off. Sit, write, journal, meditate.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

The memory of the past unfortunately torments us forever, the pain of life that is gone in fact for those who think never goes away.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Your body isn’t just a home, it’s a vehicle. Use it to change yourself- mentally and physically.<\/span>
\nZack Pogrob<\/span><\/p>\n

Mastering the art of controlling your reactions to the things that trigger you is where healing begins.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.<\/span>
\nPlutarch<\/span><\/p>\n

The difference between animals and humans is … Animals would never allow the dumbest of them to lead the pack.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Even pains are, after a long time, a joy, for those who remember all that they have been through and endured.<\/span>
\nHomer<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

The Middle East, the cradle of various religions, once again demonstrates the goodness of these spiritual inventions.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The more unworthy they are of holding institutional positions, the more careless and full of foolishness and arrogance they appear to be.<\/span>
\nDemocritus<\/span><\/p>\n

I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

I dedicate my works to those who do not know them, to those who will face them badly and to those who will not like them.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.<\/span>
\nThomas Jefferson<\/span><\/p>\n

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.<\/span>
\nBaltasar Gracian<\/span><\/p>\n

My mother gave me life and when she died she also took it away, so spirits and memories are the only things left.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

None of the mortals will ever spend their life completely free from pain, each one always pays his price for life.<\/span>
\nAeschylus<\/span><\/p>\n

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.<\/span>
\nMarcel Proust<\/span><\/p>\n

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.<\/span>
\nAlbert Schweitzer<\/span><\/p>\n

The more we do, the more we can do.<\/span>
\nWilliam Hazlitt<\/span><\/p>\n

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.<\/span>
\nWilliam James<\/span><\/p>\n

The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is not Ignorance, It is the Illusion of Knowledge.<\/span>
\nStephen Hawking<\/span><\/p>\n

No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

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