Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
Miguel de Cervantes
Quotes to Explore
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.
S. D Gordon
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
Oscar Wilde
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When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing.
Ole Hallesby
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In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.
D.E. Stevenson
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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.
William James
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His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.
Isaac Newton
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
Leon Trotsky
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It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
Isaac Watts
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Golf course design is exciting.
Tom Kite
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They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
Umberto Eco
