Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.
- Robert Ardrey
- Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
- Thomas B. Reed
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- Nothing fails like success.
- Gerald Nachman
- Success and failure are equally disastrous.
- Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
- It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
- Machiavelli
- I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}