Which Quotes

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.