Best Pliny the Younger Quotes: The most famous quotes by Pliny the Younger
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. — Pliny the Younger
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. — Pliny the Younger
There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this – that there is nothing to write about or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That’s right. I am quite well. — Pliny the Younger
His only fault is that he has no fault. — Pliny the Younger
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. — Pliny the Younger
Best Henny Youngman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Henny Youngman
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays. — Henny Youngman
When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say. — Henny Youngman
My wife is a light eater … as soon as it’s light, she starts to eat. — Henny Youngman
If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning,….sleep late. — Henny Youngman
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. — Henny Youngman
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. — Henny Youngman
I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back. — Henny Youngman
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. — Henny Youngman
Best Lin Yutang Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lin Yutang
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. — Lin Yutang
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. — Lin Yutang
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. — Lin Yutang
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought. — Lin Yutang
‘I have done my best.’ That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. — Lin Yutang
Best Dan Zadra Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dan Zadra
Worry is a misuse of imagination. — Dan Zadra
Best Israel Zangwill Quotes: The most famous quotes by Israel Zangwill
You, the Spirit of the Settlement … Not understand that America is God’s crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries… — Israel Zangwill
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera. — Israel Zangwill
The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it. — Israel Zangwill
The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition. — Israel Zangwill
Best Emiliano Zapata Quotes: The most famous quotes by Emiliano Zapata
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees — Emiliano Zapata
Best Frank Zappa Quotes: The most famous quotes by Frank Zappa
It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice — there are two other possibilities one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. — Frank Zappa
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There’s a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. — Frank Zappa
Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read. — Frank Zappa
The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced. — Frank Zappa
In the fight between you and the world, back the world. — Frank Zappa
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. — Frank Zappa
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. — Frank Zappa
Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff. — Frank Zappa
Best Peter Nivio Zarlenga Quotes: The most famous quotes by Peter Nivio Zarlenga
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Best Mao Zedong Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mao Zedong
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. — Mao Zedong
I voted for you during your last election. (To President Richard M Nixon) — Mao Zedong
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. — Mao Zedong
All reactionaries are paper tigers. — Mao Zedong
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. — Mao Zedong
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly. — Mao Zedong
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals) — Mao Zedong
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. — Mao Zedong
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. — Mao Zedong
Every Communist must grasp the truth, ‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’ Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party. — Mao Zedong
Best Roger Zelazny Quotes: The most famous quotes by Roger Zelazny
I don’t know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something–or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it’s just an ego trip. — Roger Zelazny
Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen. — Roger Zelazny
Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. — Roger Zelazny
Life is full of doors that don’t open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don’t want them to. — Roger Zelazny
I stalk my prison like my own ghost… — Roger Zelazny
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you. — Roger Zelazny
Goodbye, and hello, as always. — Roger Zelazny
Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom. — Roger Zelazny
Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest… — Roger Zelazny
When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart. — Roger Zelazny
Best Zelda Quotes: The most famous quotes by Zelda
Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold. — Zelda
I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. — Zelda
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. — Zelda
Best Robert Zend Quotes: The most famous quotes by Robert Zend
There are too many people, and too few human beings. — Robert Zend
Best John Peter Zenger Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Peter Zenger
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. — John Peter Zenger
Best Zeno Quotes: The most famous quotes by Zeno
The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less. — Zeno
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. — Zeno
Best Zeuxis Quotes: The most famous quotes by Zeuxis
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. — Zeuxis
Best Warren Zevon Quotes: The most famous quotes by Warren Zevon
I’ll sleep when I’m dead. — Warren Zevon
Best Enlai Zhou Quotes: The most famous quotes by Enlai Zhou
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. (1954) — Enlai Zhou
Best Ziggy Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ziggy
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. — Ziggy
Best Zig Ziglar Quotes: The most famous quotes by Zig Ziglar
If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen. — Zig Ziglar
Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. — Zig Ziglar
Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword. — Zig Ziglar
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. — Zig Ziglar
Success is dependent upon the glands–sweat glands. — Zig Ziglar
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. — Zig Ziglar
You don’t pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success. — Zig Ziglar
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. — Zig Ziglar
If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. — Zig Ziglar
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. — Zig Ziglar
Push on, friend. You’re just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life. — Zig Ziglar
There’s often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you’ll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come — Zig Ziglar
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. — Zig Ziglar
Best Johann Georg von Zimmermann Quotes: The most famous quotes by Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy. — Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. — Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. — Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. — Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Best William Zinsser Quotes: The most famous quotes by William Zinsser
What I want to do is make people laugh so that they’ll see things seriously. — William Zinsser
There’s not much to be said about the period except that most writers don’t reach it soon enough. — William Zinsser
Best Emile Zola Quotes: The most famous quotes by Emile Zola
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. — Emile Zola
Best Zoroaster Quotes: The most famous quotes by Zoroaster
TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise. — Zoroaster
Best David Zucker Quotes: The most famous quotes by David Zucker
Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there. — David Zucker
Best Gary Zukav Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gary Zukav
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. — Gary Zukav
Best Carl Zwanzig Quotes: The most famous quotes by Carl Zwanzig
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together…. — Carl Zwanzig
Best Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart Quotes: The most famous quotes by Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. — Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
Best Gravestone from the 1800’s Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gravestone from the 1800’s
Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, Prepare yourself and follow me. — Gravestone from the 1800’s
Best Proverbs 47-8 Quotes: The most famous quotes by Proverbs 47-8
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you. — Proverbs 47-8
Best Matthew 821-22 Quotes: The most famous quotes by Matthew 821-22
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me and let the dead bury their dead. — Matthew 821-22
Page Topic: Best Famous Quotes by Pliny the Younger, Henny Youngman, Lin Yutang, Dan Zadra, Israel Zangwill, Emiliano Zapata, Frank Zappa, Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Mao Zedong, Roger Zelazny, Zelda, Robert Zend, John Peter Zenger, Zeno, Zeuxis, Warren Zevon, Enlai Zhou, Ziggy, Zig Ziglar, Johann Georg von Zimmermann, William Zinsser, Emile Zola, Zoroaster, David Zucker, Gary Zukav, Carl Zwanzig, Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart, Gravestone from the 1800’s, Proverbs 47-8, and Matthew 821-22
