The Quote Diaries

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact…” -John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.” — Beryl Pfizer

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference."– Elie Wiesel

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."– Benjamin Franklin Wade

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” - Theodore Roosevelt

”The part of life we really live is small.’ For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” — William Wrigley Jr.

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.” — Harry S Truman

“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.” — Groucho Marx

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Throw me to the wolves and I’ll return leading the pack.” - Suzanne Collins

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.” Plato

“She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.” ― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” —Robert Frost

“I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”- Kurt Cobain