Adam Smith Quotes
All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.
Adam Smith
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to be serious in life.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.
Zach Galifianakis
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Harold Rosenberg
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If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.
Zach Johnson
The Fray
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Hans Hofmann
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Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.
Orson Scott Card
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In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.
Wallace Stevens
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He was short on the one attribute certain to meet the immediate respect of the rich - i.e. being rich - and must therefore obtrude deterrents against being buggered about.
Kingsley Amis
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
Anna Quindlen
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The earth is not in the centre of the Sun's orbit nor at the centre of the universe, but in the centre of its companion elements, and united with them. And any one standing on the moon, when it and the sun are both beneath us, would see this our earth and the element of water upon it just as we see the moon, and the earth would light it as it lights us.
Leonardo da Vinci
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
Buffalo Bill
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Success is a game, you must want to win.
William Cranch Bond
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.
Margaret Fuller
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Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.
Donald Tusk
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All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.
Adam Smith
