Plato Quotes

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

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• I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Ideas
  • Working
  • Dead

• Tonight was one of those nights where things didn't go my way. I got great looks at the rim, I just couldn't knock them down.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Great
  • Things
  • Looks

• Donald Trump's a hell of a performer, he's a hell of an entertainer. If you put him on and let him say his crazy stuff, you're going to get a lot of viewers. If you take him off and have some sober discussion about what's going on in Syria, you're going to lose 80 percent of your audience.

  

  Van Jones
  • Crazy
  • Trump
  • Stuff

• You know you wanna do your career, but at the same time, it could end any day and there are so many things in this industry that are stupid and vain, like photo shoots every day. I have always a struggle with that.

  

  Uffie
  • Time
  • Career
  • Struggle

• Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • My Life
  • Sense
  • Result

• Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Sober
  • Earnest

• Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Develop
  • Content

• Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Act
  • Fancies

• Write drunk; edit sober.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Drinking
  • Drunk

• I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Greatest
  • Round
  • Knock

• The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Vain
  • Thinker

• It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Fault
  • Vain
  • Deceived

• In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Mountains
  • Vain

• Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Fashion
  • Vain
  • Conform

• The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Qualities
  • Vain
  • Illuminating

• Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Lying
  • Sober

• In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

  

  Confucius
  • Faults
  • Vain
  • Charge

• The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • People
  • Artist
  • Enough

• The labour of digging and watering, the anxious zeal with which I pounced on weeds, the poring over gardening books, the plans made as I sat on the little seat in the middle gazing admiringly and with the eye of faith on the trim surface so soon to be gemmed with a thousand flowers, the reckless expenditure of pfennings^ the humiliation of my position in regard to Fraulein Wundermacher, all, all had been in vain.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Faith
  • Books
  • Vain

• All my life I have faced this awkwardness, as I almost sound like a guy. In fact, whenever I would call my friends, their dads would say, 'Hold on son.'

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Awkwardness

• Hope is the best possession.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Possession
  • Hopeful
  • Anticipation

• I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Character

• It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

  

  Plato
  • Vain
  • Sober
  • Knock