Favorite Quotes

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." - Degas

 

"How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!" - Petrarch

 

"Hope is but the dream of those who wake." - Prior

 

"I am never going to write for the sake of writing." - Lazarus

 

"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." - Strunsky

 

"Calmness is the cradle of power." - Holland

 

"Enthusiasm moves the world." - Balfour

 

"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking." - Machado

 

"Tomorrow let us do or die!" - Campbell

 

"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise." - Hopkins

 

"It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse." - Nordau

 

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide." - E. Brontë

 

"Now comes the reign of iron." - Ericsson

 

"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things." - Melville

 

"They are not long, the days of wine and roses." - Dowson

 

"Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote." - Bunner

 

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." - Shelley

 

"When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch." - Barton

 

"My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure." - Tennyson

 

"You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood." - Malebranche