Popular Quotes

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

- Will Durant | Action Quotes

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

- Will Durant | Aging and Old Age Quotes

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

- Will Durant | Civilization Quotes

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

- Will Durant | History and Historians Quotes

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

- Will Durant | History and Historians Quotes

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

- Will Durant | Knowledge Quotes

When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

- Will Durant | Order and Organization Quotes

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

- Will Durant | Parenthood Quotes

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

- Will Durant | Happiness Quotes

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

- Will Durant | Acceptance Quotes

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

- Will Durant | The Present Quotes

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

- Will Durant | Goals Quotes

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

- Will Durant | Failures and Mistakes Quotes