Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

1. A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. 
2. A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this — that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made, not to understand, but to feel, as crime. 
3. A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them. 
4. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. 
5. After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment. 
6. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. 
7. All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. 
8. All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. 
9. And all I loved, I loved alone. 
10. And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. 
11. And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted — nevermore! 
12. And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain, Thrilled me -- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.  
13. And when, amid no earthly moans, down, down that town shall settle hence, hell, rising from a thousand thrones, shall do it reverence. 
14. Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. 
15. But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been. 
16. Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. 
17. Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by. 
18. Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. 
19. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. 

Albert Einstein Quotes

1. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
2. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
3. A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
4. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
5. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
6. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
7. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
8. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
9. All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.
10. An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
11. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
12. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction
13. Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
14. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
15. Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
16. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
17. As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
18. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
19. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
20. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Mark Twain Quotes

1. A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
2. All the modern inconveniences.
3. A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
4. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
5. Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
6. All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
7. A man’s private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always.
8. Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.
9. A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
10. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
11. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
12. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
13. An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the Sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it’s a grand thing.
14. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
15. A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
16. A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
17. Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
18. An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.
19. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
20. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Aristotle Quotes

1. A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment.
2. A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
3. A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
4. A friend is a second self.
5. A friend to all is a friend to none.
6. A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
7. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
8. A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
9. Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
10. Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
11. A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
12. A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange…Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
13. A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
14. A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
15. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
16. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
17. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
18. All men by nature desire knowledge.
19. All men seek one goal : success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal-a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
20. All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.