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After shoveling over a dozen online resources dedicated to quotations, we tried to determine the most popular topics for quoting, and for each of the topics - the best and brightest quotes . Thus, we got such a rating - the 10 most popular topics for quoting with the 10 best quotes on these topics. The most useful quotes for all occasions from the most prominent people ...

1st place: The best quotes about love.

Perhaps in this world you are just a person, but for someone you are the whole world.

(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

We always have to choose who to let into our little world. You are also imperfect. This girl you met is also imperfect. The main thing is whether you are perfect for each other.

("Good Will Hunting")

Here's a simple test for falling in love: if, after spending four or five hours without your mistress, you start to miss her, then you are not in love - otherwise ten minutes of separation would be enough to make your life absolutely unbearable.

Love is a priceless gift. It's the only thing we can give and yet you keep it.

(L.N. Tolstoy)

To love is to see a person as God intended him to be.

(F.M. Dostoevsky)

Perhaps God wants us to meet the wrong people before we meet that one person. So that when it happens, we'll be grateful.

(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

You can bloom with it and wither,
She will devour you like an aphid flower
But it's still better to die like that,
Than never loving anyone ...

(Dolphin, "Love")

You love everyone, and to love everyone is to love no one. You are all equally indifferent.

(Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)

Love flees from those who chase after it, and those who run away, throw themselves on the neck.

(William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor)

In a loved one, even flaws are liked, and in an unloved person, even virtues annoy.

(Omar Khayyam)

2nd place: The best quotes about life.


From the point of view of youth, life is an endless future; from the point of view of old age, it is a very short past.

(Arthur Schopenhauer)

Do not be afraid to make mistakes, stumble and fall, often the greatest reward comes from what scares us the most. Maybe you will achieve everything you want, or maybe even more than you imagined. Who knows where life will take you, the journey is long and in the end the journey itself is the goal.

("One tree's hill")

Nobody dies a virgin. Life will take everyone.

(Kurt Cobain)

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

(George Bernard Shaw)

Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.

(John Lennon)

Do what you really want to do. Don't play their games. When they want you to race to the right, blow at top speed to the left! Don't do what others want. Look for your own path.

(Johnny Depp)

Open your eyes wider, live as greedily as if you were going to die in ten seconds. Try to see the world. It is more beautiful than any dream created in a factory and paid for with money. Do not ask for guarantees, do not seek peace - there is no such beast in the world.

(Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451)

You can't learn to skate if you're afraid to be funny. The ice of life is slippery.

(George Bernard Shaw)

Better to burn than to fade away.

(Kurt Cobain)

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what stuffing you'll get.

("Forrest Gump")


3rd place: The best quotes about people.


Now that we have learned to fly through the air like birds, to swim underwater like fish, we lack only one thing: to learn how to live on earth like people.

(George Bernard Shaw)

There will always be people who will hurt you. You have to keep trusting people, just be a little more careful.

(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Generation after generation, people work in jobs they hate just to be able to buy what they don't need.

(Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club)

Fate is not a fool, in vain will not reduce people ...

(Max Frei, “Labyrinths of Echo”)

Nothing betrays a person more than what he laughs at.

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

A worthy person does not follow in the footsteps of other people.

(Confucius)

We do not choose each other by chance ... We meet only those who already exist in our subconscious.

(Sigmund Freud)

Those who think you can't handle it are not the people you need in life.

("One tree's hill")

People who don't drink, don't smoke, never swear or talk about sex make me suspicious. I'm sure they cut up the corpses of small children at night or something like that.

(Chuck Palahniuk)

If a person is satisfied with everything, then he is a complete idiot. A healthy person in a normal memory cannot always arrange everything.

(Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin)

4th place: The best quotes about wisdom.


If the gods want to punish a person, they fulfill his desires.

(Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband")

Be attentive to your thoughts, they are the beginning of actions.

There are only two infinite things: the universe and stupidity. Although I'm not sure about the universe.

(Albert Einstein)

If they spit in your back, then you are ahead.

(Confucius)

Eagles fly alone, sheep graze in herds.

(Philip Sidney)

If you were born without wings, don't let them grow.

(Coco Chanel)

Only by losing everything to the end, we gain freedom.

("Fight club")

The only person standing in your way is yourself.

("Black Swan")

Do not be afraid of enemies - in the worst case, they can kill you.
Do not be afraid of friends - in the worst case, they can betray you.
Be afraid of the indifferent - they do not kill and do not betray,
but with their tacit consent, treachery and lies exist on earth.

(Bruno Jasensky, “Conspiracy of the Indifferent”)

People make their own problems - no one forces them to choose boring professions, marry the wrong people or buy uncomfortable shoes.

(Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya)


5th place: The best quotes about the relationship of men and women.


A beautiful woman is pleasing to the eyes, but kind to the heart; one is a beautiful thing, and the other a treasure.

(Napoleon I Bonaparte)

It is not enough to be husband and wife, one must also become friends and lovers, so that later one does not look for them on the side.

(Japanese proverb)

Never, never and never again will you be ridiculous in the eyes of a woman if you do something for her. Let it even be the most stupid farce. Do whatever you want - stand on your head, talk nonsense, brag like a peacock, sing under her window. Do not do only one thing - do not be businesslike, reasonable with her.

(Erich Maria Remarque, “Three Comrades”)

There can be no greater torment for a woman than a man who is so kind, so faithful, so loving, so unique and who does not expect any oaths.

(Janusz Leon Wisniewski, Loneliness on the Web)

If a woman wants to refuse, she says no. If a woman indulges in explanations, she wants to be convinced.

(Alfred de Musset)

A man, even if he could understand what a woman thinks, he still would not believe.

(Dorothy Parker)

A man in love is one who loves to look at a sleeping woman and enjoy her from time to time.

(Frederic Begbeder, “99 francs”)

We need beauty to be loved by men; and stupidity - so that we love men.

(Coco Chanel)

If a woman tells a man that he is the smartest, then she understands that she will not find another such fool.

(Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya)

Why do women devote so much time and money to their appearance, and not to the development of intelligence?
- Because there are far fewer blind men than smart ones.

(Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya)

6th place: The best quotes about motivation.


Only one thing makes the fulfillment of a dream impossible - it is the fear of failure.

(Paulo Coelho, "The Alchemist")

Do not look back and do not grieve for the past, because it is already gone. Don't worry about the future, because it hasn't arrived yet. Live in the present and make it so beautiful that you will remember it forever.

("One tree's hill")

Find a job you fall in love with and you'll never have to work another day in your life again.

(Confucius)

If we listened to our reason, we would never have a love relationship. We would never be friends. We would never go for it, because we would be cynical: “Something is wrong” or: “She will leave me” or: “I already burned myself once, and therefore ...” This is nonsense. So you can miss your whole life. Every time you need to jump off a cliff and grow wings on the way down.

(Ray Bradbury)

Success is the ability to move from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

(Winston Churchill)

When it seems that the whole world is against you, remember that the plane takes off against the wind!

(Henry Ford)

You are what you do. You are your choice. The one you turn yourself into.

(Johnny Depp)

Do today what others do not want, tomorrow you will live in a way that others cannot.

(Jared Leto)

Be busy. It is the cheapest medicine on earth - and one of the most effective.

(Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living)

When you really want something, the whole Universe will help to ensure that your desire comes true.

(Paulo Coelho, "The Alchemist")


7th place: The best quotes about happiness.


Life is not measured by the number of breaths taken, but by the number of those moments when happiness takes your breath away.

(“Shooting Rules: The Hitch Method”)

Remember, Maria, what our world is like - and you will understand: one happy day is almost a miracle.

(Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes")

The secret of our unhappiness is that we have time to reflect on whether we are happy or not.

(George Bernard Shaw)

Sometimes you have to fight for happiness even with yourself.

("Pride and Prejudice")

The main thing - do not be afraid to say goodbye to what does not make you happy.

("Moms")

Happiness can only be achieved through sacrifice.

("Butterfly Effect")

There is happiness, it is simpler than simple: it is someone's face.

(Frederic Begbeder, “Love Lives for Three Years”)

Happiness is a property of character. Some have it in their nature to wait all the time, others continuously look for it, and others find it everywhere.

(Elchin Safarli, “They promised me you”)

Disregarding common sense is a sure way to happiness.

("Pride and Prejudice")

- Believe me, Carlson, happiness is not in pies ...
- Are you crazy? And what else?

(“Baby and Carlson”)

8th place: The best quotes about women.


In order to be beautiful, it is enough for a woman to have a black sweater, a black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.

(Coco Chanel)

We women only have two weapons... Mascara and tears, but we can't use both at the same time.

(Marilyn Monroe)

Women is a crossword where nothing intersects.

(Gennady Malkin)

A woman should dress in such a way that it is pleasant to undress her.

(Coco Chanel)

Women! women! who will understand them? Their smiles contradict their gazes, their words promise and beckon, and the sound of their voice repels... Either they comprehend and guess our most secret thought in a minute, or they do not understand the clearest hints...

Quotes to yourself - Happy hours do not watch,

And on mine without ten. A. Griboyedov

I'm waiting. It's easy for me to be patient and not rush things. I know how to say: "I don't care" - moreover, I know how to believe it. Max Fry

Be yourself. All other places are already taken. Oscar Wilde

I'd rather regret what I did than what I didn't. That's why I try to grab every opportunity. Cameron Diaz

There are things about which I never lie: about what I love or miss. Trite, but really, few people have heard from me.

We got so used to wearing masks in front of others that we ended up wearing masks even in front of ourselves. La Rochefoucauld

But all I want is to bring joy and love to people! Michael Jackson

I am exactly the same as everyone else; I take wishful thinking and see the world not as it really is, but as I want to see it. Paulo Coelho

My main rule is: do your job well and see what happens. Denzel Washington

The most harmful food is TEA ... There will always be gingerbread, sausage and pies for it !!!

All my little oddities got up, bowed and rushed off in a round dance. Jonathan Carroll

Know how to control yourself if you do not want others to control you. Veselin Georgiev

Just be yourself, there is no one better. Taylor Swift

I don't have to be what others want me to be, and I'm not afraid to be what I would like to see myself. Muhammad Ali

Temporarily unavailable. She left to arrange her personal life. Where, I don't know. When I return, with whom and what kind is unknown.

I love being alone. Or rather, it’s not at all difficult for me to be alone. H. Murakami

For everyone who knows you, you are different. Chuck Palahniuk

I am a weirdo. I think each of us is a little crazy in our own way. Johnny Depp

I'm usually bad, but when I'm good, I'm good as hell. Charles Bukowski

I am the only person in the world that I would like to know better. Oscar Wilde

I don't like it when they touch mine. It doesn't matter if it's a thing or a person. Oscar Wilde

If you think "I am a genius" all the time, you will eventually become a genius. Salvador Dali

Of course, I'm not perfect ... but the masterpiece is still the same ...

You are already different from others. Trying to fix it is useless. However, you can use…

Whoever strives for a great goal should no longer think about himself. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

A horse and a hut for me ... Until I sobered up

Only the surrounding public makes me stupid and rude ... Andrey Belyanin

I'm far from ideal ... yes, in general, I don't aspire. Ludmila Shcherblyuk

Oh, such a hostess, such a hostess!
I make: dumplings, dumplings, fry pancakes ...
And all - with closed eyes, and all - lying on the sofa, and everything is MENTAL! Anabell

The main thing is not what you are outside, the main thing is how many devils are in your pool.

No need to flatter me, I already know what is good in me, and what is just wonderful !!!

“Still, life is an amazing thing, especially when you live regularly.” There is something in this statement, especially if you look at what every third thinks now, what is the meaning of life, and every second does not understand why he lives at all. Maybe then the best quotes about life will be able to dispel a little the fog of doubts and unnecessary questions?

Life is…

A Japanese detective writer said: "A person's life is like a box of matches: taking it seriously is funny, but not serious is dangerous." In some ways, he is really right, because different situations happen in life, and if everything that happened is taken too close to heart, then you can easily become discouraged. And while a person will be in this state, life will quickly sweep past. But at the same time, you should not let everything take its course, because then life will turn into an aimless existence. And in confirmation of the above, we can cite the statement of John Newman: “One should not be afraid that life will someday end, one should be afraid that it will never begin.”

It is often insisted on life that human existence is a game, a circus or a theater. And whoever wants, so it perceives. But no one can argue with the statement that "a person is the master of his life, and what kind of master he is, such is his life."

What is the sense of life?

Life is a series of events that happen to a person. They can be taken for granted, you can look for hidden subtext or just enjoy what is happening. Someone once said that when a person begins to understand what the meaning of life is, then life loses all meaning. But at this very moment, everything is just beginning. Human existence should be filled with meaning, and the best quotes about the meaning of life say that everyone has his own:

  • Albert Einstein: "Only that life can be called worthy, which was lived for the sake of other people."
  • L. Smith: “Meaning human life consists of two things: to achieve what you want, and to enjoy it. True, only the wise can do the second task.
  • A.P. Chekhov: "The meaning of life lies in the struggle."
  • V. O. Klyuchevsky: “Life is not about living, but about feeling alive.”
  • G. Hesse: "The meaning of our stay in this world is to think, look for and listen to distant sounds, because behind them lies the homeland."
  • L. N. Tolstoy: “If you try to briefly express the meaning of life, then it can be defined as follows: the world is in constant motion and improvement. The main task of a person is to contribute to this movement, to submit to changes and cooperate with them.

This is what makes sense

No matter how different the best quotes about life and its meaning are, they all say the same thing: the meaning of life is to be happy. But, only by filling your existence with meaning, you can know true happiness. In the film "Fight Club" the following words were once heard: "Get out of your apartment. Make new acquaintances. Stop buying things you don't need. Leave work, provoke a fight. Prove that you live. If you do not declare your rights to humanity, then you can turn into figures of statistical reports. This statement can be safely written down in the best quotes about life with meaning. Perhaps it sounds ambiguous, but it perfectly shows that the main thing in life is to feel its course, to feel its meaning and learn to enjoy it.

The value of life

However, one cannot feel the fullness of being without knowing the value of existence itself. Good quotes about life with meaning always speak of its value:

  • N. Chernyshevsky: "Life is sweet to a person, because only with it is his happiness, hope and joy."
  • T. Dreiser: "The main thing in life is life itself."
  • Jean de La Bruyère: "People do not want to preserve anything like that and do not cherish anything so mercilessly as their own life."
  • F. Bacon: "There is no more terrible person than the one who does not value his life."

The eternal value that is given only once is the opportunity to exist in this world. This is a great gift, not a curse, because it depends only on a person how he will live his fate: devalue it and will exist or fill it with meaning.

Through the barricades

Not everyone is born equal, but everyone has the freedom to choose. It is foolish to seek your happiness, you need to become its source, and even a little about life, but you must show that life is a movement. After all, only the one who moves forward, gets up after each fall, stubbornly strives for a cherished dream, truly lives:

  • Michel Montaigne: "A person who believes in what he can become determines who he will become in the future."
  • Sharon Stone: "It doesn't matter how a person falls, it matters how he rises."
  • Confucius: "Glory consists not in never making mistakes, but in admitting and correcting one's mistakes."
  • Omar Khayyam: "He who has lost his fighting spirit dies prematurely."
  • Oliver Goldsmith: Happy life and glory is not for those who never fall, but for those who constantly rise.”

Man can do everything! Only he can change his destiny. And it depends only on him whether these changes will be positive or negative.

Every night ends in the morning

As Arthur Schopenhauer once said, “To the young, life appears as an endless future, and to the old, as a short past.” In reality, the time of a person's stay in this world is limited, like a fleeting moment. And what then remains for each of us? Probably think of a reason to live. After all, as Faina Ranevskaya said, "the main thing is to live a living life, and not get lost in the labyrinths of memory." The best quotes about life cannot answer all the questions a person faces. But they give good answers to age-old questions. What is its meaning? How should one live?

Analyzing reviews

Quotes are not just a beautiful lace of words, they all have a certain impact on the public. If we analyze user reviews on popular quote sites, then of all the statements presented, aphorisms about the meaning of life and perseverance in achieving one's own goal deserve more attention. Quotes about the value of life have the least "success". The reason for such a resonance is simple - every person wants to be happy, so he subconsciously looks for something that can inspire him to exploits and show what the meaning of life is hidden in.

And, summing up, we can say only one thing: everything ingenious is simple. Life is a gift, and its meaning is to be happy. And everyone has their own happiness, someone likes to do something for the sake of others, someone wants to take an active part in improving the world, and someone just needs to contemplate the beauty environment. You just need to find something that brings joy, and fill every day with this joy. Only then will a person be able to realize that his existence is not an accidental absurdity, but a real gift of fate.

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Quotations should be used only when you really can not do without someone else's authority.
Arthur Schopenhauer.

Aphorisms are perhaps the best form for presenting philosophical judgments.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

Always check quotes: your own - before you say, others - after they are said.
Winston Churchill.

I dream of writing such aphorisms so that each one will be published as a separate book.
Absalom Underwater.

Almost everyone wise saying corresponds to the opposite in meaning - and at the same time no less wise.
George Santayana.

Aphorism leaves more room for a person.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

Let's be brief. The world is overpopulated with words.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

Love for flowery phrases and paradoxical ideas will someday destroy humanity...
Boris Akunin.

In the absence of an argument, a quotation is given.
Helvetius.

There are four kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics, and quotations.

Individual style is a plagiarism in relation to oneself.
Alfred Hitchcock.

I noticed that smart thoughts are especially fond of collecting fools.
Sylvia Cheese.



If the thought falls short of an aphorism, that's nothing; bad if the aphorism does not reach the thought.
Absalom Underwater.

Unquote the classic quote, will it remain a classic?
Viktor Konyakhin.

Of the two words, choose the smaller.
Paul Valerie.

Soon golden thoughts will become available to everyone: they will be stamped out of plastic.

If you steal from your contemporaries, you will be scolded for plagiarism, and if you steal from the ancients, you will be praised for your erudition.
Charles Caleb Colton.

An essay is a kind of literature that allows you to say almost everything about almost nothing.
Aldous Huxley.

Pushing the foam of Banality with my elbows, I sail with the harpoon of Attention across the sea of ​​Language in search of the fish of Aphorism, smoothly carried by the imperceptible current of Hidden Rhythm, but beingware of the reefs of Frank Rhyme.
Absalom Underwater.

Any aphorism that a nut is good on the outside, but three-quarters empty on the inside.
Fernand Vandran.

A synonym is used instead of a word that you wanted to write but don't know how to spell it.
Bert Bacharach.

An aphorism cannot be dictated to a typist. It would be too long. An aphorism never contains the whole truth: it contains either half the truth or one and a half.
Karl Kraus.

Extracting from the classics will bring excellent benefits, and there will always be something that will firmly sit in the head, turn into flesh and blood.
Jan Amos Comenius.



Those who write clearly have readers, and those who write darkly have commentators.
Albert Camus.

I have a quote for every occasion - it's the best way to think in an original way.
Dorothy Sayers.

People think and speak in quotations, but they don't notice it.

What is the difference between journalism and literature? Journalism is not worth reading, and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde.

Aphorism is wisdom in a portable form, a concentrated extract of thoughts and feelings.
William Rusquill Alger.

Despite his practical ability, some of his experience has been petrified in sayings and quotations.
George Elliot.

I pour quotes on you, and one of them can hit the target and turn out to be saving for you or just at least useful. You know, you have to talk a lot with a person in crisis, he hears and understands almost nothing, but one phrase breaks through and becomes a saving straw...
Alexandra Marinina.

The state closest to being intelligent is the ability to quote someone who is intelligent.
Mary Pettibone Pool.

Scientists can only be beaten with their own weapons - quotes!
Friedrich Engels.

Reread what you have written, and if you come across a particularly refined turn, cross it out.
Samuel Johnson.

Since ancient times, people have wise and beautiful sayings; we should learn from them.
Herodotus.

Excellent words! Curious, where did you steal them?
Jonathan Swift.



Save time - read aphorisms.
Yuri Bazylev.

It is too easy to throw quotes, because there are so many great writers in the world and they have said so many smart things that it seems like you shouldn’t strain yourself.
Martin Page.

Brevity is the soul of wit.
Anton Chekhov.

If I quote others, it is only in order to better express my own thought.
Michel de Montaigne.

To quote means to use other people's words to confirm someone else's thought.

Our grandfathers abundantly filled their letters with quotations, and now this is considered pretentious. However, quotes save us from expressing badly what someone has already managed to express well, and, moreover, indicate the direction, our preferences, helping to understand the one who uses them.
Julio Cortazar.

Your thought is only a pale copy of the great ones that you quote.
Bernard Werber.

The quote is a risk under someone else's responsibility.
Vladislav Gzheshchik.


Boris Yuzefovich Krutier.

Quotations not only express someone else's thought, but also cover up the nakedness of their own.
Don Aminado.

My way of quoting differs from the usual one in that I omit the quotation marks.
George Moore.

In life, people quote whatever they want. So we have the right to quote whatever we like. So I show people who are quoting.
Jean-Luc Godard.



Explain something completely to me, and I will explain everything to you.

I put all the systems in one phrase, and all my life - in one aphorism.
Oscar Wilde.

An aphorism should be so packaged that looking at it, the mouths open.
Julian Wilson.

What is poorly understood is often tried to be explained with the help of words that are not understood.
Gustave Flaubert.

Brevity is the sister of talent, but the stepmother of royalties.
A. Svobodin.

There are writers who can do in twenty pages what sometimes takes me two lines.
Karl Kraus.

Wise men come up with new ideas, and fools spread them.
Heinrich Heine.

I don't think it's necessary to look for a good reason to quote your favorite author, but honestly, it's always nice.
Jerome David Salinger.

The best way to refresh a quote is to quote accurately.
E. Fok.

There is nothing said that would be said for the first time.
Terence.

She always knew how to quote, and this is a good substitute for her own wit.
William Somerset Maugham.

The future of literature is in aphorism. It cannot be screened.
Gabriel Laub.



For adults it is necessary to write in the same way as for children, only worse.
Eph. Borisov.

From wise lips - and straight into notebooks.
Aldous Huxley.

There is no greatest absurdity that has not been said by any of the philosophers.
Mark Tullius Cicero.

Take out the quotes.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

I don't need an obituary - it's better to print my aphorisms here.
Arkady Davidovich.

Many try to live other people's lives. Their thoughts are other people's opinions, their lives are mimicry, their passion is quotations. The ability to quote well hides the absence of one's own ideas.
Kurt Cobain.

We love to pronounce wise phrases and quote the greats, but few people can give out at least one interesting thought of their own production.
Oleg Roy.

Do not repeat - your soul is rich - what was once said. But perhaps poetry itself is one magnificent quotation.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova.

Phrases are composed for lack of thoughts.
Jean Condorcet.

May those who expressed our thoughts before us perish!
Latin saying.



Reading the ancient sages, you often find something of your own.
Boleslav Voltaire.

People who enjoy quoting tend to like nonsensical generalizations.
Green Graham.

“You can quote anything, as long as the quote is in place” ... So I imagine the place where the quote should be inserted!

Everything has already been said by Rabbi Ben Akiba. But some of it was confiscated.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

Explanatory expressions explain dark thoughts.
Kozma Prutkov.

The trouble with those who write quickly is that they cannot write concisely.
Walter Scott.

Style is an easy way to say complex things.
Jean Cocteau.

We live in a world of quotes, you can't afford a sense of humor.
Megan Fox.

Aphorisms are short, like a memory.

Each book is a quote; each house is a quote from all forests, mines and quarries; and each person is a quote from all their ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In the old science fiction novels, the main thing was the radio. Under him, the happiness of mankind was expected. There is a radio, but there is no happiness.
Ilya Ilf.

The best time to start an article is when you have successfully completed it. By this time, it becomes clear to you what exactly you want to say.
Mark Twain.



I knew a man so little read that he himself had to compose quotations from the classics.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

Any true sage can always find sayings of a mutually exclusive nature.
Boris Akunin.

If you do not want to say too much, speak in aphorisms.
Boris Yuzefovich Krutier.

I hate quotes. Say what you think yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Proverbs contradict one another. This, in fact, is the wisdom of the people.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

For children, you need to write the same way as for adults, only even better.
Paraphrased by Konstantin Stanislavsky.

Sayings are ordinary words of unusual people.

Faced with unreadability, you begin to appreciate illiteracy.
Jacek Weiroch.

Plagiarism is the basis of every literature, with the exception of the very first, about which, however, nothing is known.
Jules Girardin.

In the creations of all the great poets, in essence, there are no secondary characters, each character is in its place the main character.
Heinrich Heine.



And God spoke in quotes.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

The right word in the right place is the most accurate definition of style.
Jonathan Swift.

Why do I write aphorisms? So that the reader, imperceptibly for himself, begins to think.
Absalom Underwater.

A strange receptacle "dictionary of quotes": for those who are there - purgatory, for those who are exiled - hell!
Boris Zakhoder.

An aphorism is a thought performing a pirouette.
Joris de Bruyne.

There are many stupid and harmful sayings that have the status of an indisputable truth. One of the most stupid - "one in the field is not a warrior." Only a loner can be a real warrior - one who does not follow someone's orders, but leads the war himself.
Boris Akunin.

The strongest influence is not those who are followed, but those against whom they are going.
Grigory Landau.

There are such short sayings and proverbs that are accepted and used by everyone. Such sayings would not have passed from century to century if they did not seem true to all people.
Marc Fabius Quintilian.

Aphorists have to choose expressions all their lives.
Boris Yuzefovich Krutier.
Without repetition, there is no depth.
Grigory Landau.

If an aphorism needs explanation, then it is unsuccessful.
Luc de Clapier de Vauvenargues.

And in the style there are four-pointed clover leaves - I prefer them to flowers.
Karol Izhikovsky.



An aphorist is a miner of Attic salt for other people's dishes.
Wieslaw Brudzinsky.

I don't want to be quoted. And don't quote what I just said.
Winston Burdett.

You should write as you speak and not speak as you write.
Charles Saint Bev.

Cross out all exclamation points. Putting an exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

Solomon created the book of wisdom, but the book of wisdom did not create Solomon.
"Tooger's Observation";

From frequent use, some quotations shine like railings.
Viktor Pelevin.

The most important quote will be the one whose source you can't find.
The source of this quote will be indicated in the most critical review of your work.
Duggan Law.

An anthology of stupid thoughts is already wisdom.
Jan Lechitsky.

Historical phrases are the words of famous people spoken by them after death.
André Prevot.

An aphorist is a person who rejoices like a child, having come up with a phrase that, in all likelihood, was an ancient folk proverb among the Phoenicians.
Wieslaw Brudzinsky.

Who writes as he speaks, writes badly, no matter how well he speaks.
Georges Louis Buffon.

When do I put an end to an aphorism? As soon as I feel that the reader begins to object to me.
Absalom Underwater.



The art of aphorism lies not so much in the expression of some original and deep idea, but in the ability to express an accessible and useful thought in a few words.
Samuel Johnson.

The number of errors in any passage of the text is directly proportional to the number of borrowings from secondary sources.
Harold Faber.

Everything has been said for a long time, but since no one is listening, you have to constantly go back and repeat everything from the beginning.
Andre Gide.

You often hear young people say: I don't want to live with someone else's mind, I'll think it over myself. Why do you think about what you think. Take what you have and move on. This is the strength of humanity.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

Excerpts, sayings, and so on are like incendiary glasses: they collect the rays of mind and knowledge scattered in the works of writers, and with force and vivacity concentrate these rays in the minds of readers.
Jonathan Swift.

The aphorism contains half the truth - an unusually high percentage.
Gabriel Laub.

I warn my biographer in advance: I will have to write in aphorisms.
Absalom Underwater.


Konstantin Leontiev.

The compiler makes books from other people's quotes; an aphorist composes quotations for other people's books.
Wieslaw Brudzinsky.

The writers' circle has an age-old habit of quoting each other without using quotation marks.
Igor Mironovich Guberman.

Carry and always keep with you a notebook with quotes that will inspire you and help you in difficult times.
Donald Trump.

You will either need to strengthen your memory, or never quote, because when you cannot remember a quote exactly, it haunts you like a forgotten name, and you cannot get rid of it.
Ernest Hemingway.



Has everything already been said? Yes, no doubt - if the words did not change the meaning, and the meanings did not change the words.
Jean Polian.

Those who live by their own mind do not need quotes.
Chuck Palahniuk.

I hate being quoted!
Ralph Fiennes.

This is probably a stupid thing to do - to tear words out of context, to give them a polish that the author did not aspire to.
Sergey Lukyanenko.

Too slickly combed style goes bald.
Martin Garso.

Quotes are better than arguments. Quotes can win a discussion without convincing the opponent.
Gabriel Laub.

Is it possible to write aphorisms to order? Only if the era orders.
Absalom Underwater.

Isn't it time to introduce the ringing of winged words.
Boris Brinin.

A decent person, if he commits meanness, then silently. On the other hand, a convinced scoundrel cannot do without a suitable literary quotation.
Don Aminado.

The more indisputable the saying, the greater the danger that it will become commonplace.
Luc de Vauvenargues.

What you don't understand is best quoted in the language you know the worst.
Voltaire.



The correct dosage of aphorisms: a minimum of words, a maximum of meaning.
Mark Twain.

In essence, everything that is not an aphorism is a general phrase.
Boris Yuzefovich Krutier.

The most needed is a quote, the source of which can not be found.
Arthur Bloch.

A correctly torn quote sounds better in someone else's mouth than in the author's.
Alexander Genis.

If I had one point of view on the world, I would write a single aphorism.
Absalom Underwater.

Who thinks clearly, speaks clearly.
Nicholas Boileau.

A quote is an incorrect repetition of someone else's words.
Ambrose Bierce.

Only distorted quotes are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson.

In all doubtful cases, the quotation should be attributed to George Bernard Shaw.
Nigel Rhys.

What the writer wants to say, he must not say, but write.
Ernest Hemingway.

Aphorisms are like lawyers who inevitably see only one side of the matter.
Anthony Burgess.



You, young man, misquote the classics. Not solid. When the author is known to you, you should say "as such and such said." In all other cases, the quote should be attributed to Dostoevsky, of course, if it is not too witty...
Konstantin Leontiev.

The plagiarist is always afraid of being robbed.
Samuel Coleridge.

The most brilliant phrases I have ever said in my entire life, I said to myself.
Frederic Begbeder.

Have you noticed that we pay much more attention to wise thoughts when they are quoted than when we meet them from the author himself?
Philip Hamerton.

Words placed differently take on a different meaning; otherwise thoughts placed produce a different impression.
Blaise Pascal.

An aphorism is a thought expressed by a foreign author.
Anton Ligov.

If you are quoted - you are already someone. If someone steals from you, you are an outstanding person. But real glory begins only when other people's words begin to be attributed to you.

I live in a world full of things I don't have but wish I had. Amendment, .. exist, because this is not life.

If a person's life consists of bottom only happiness, then the very first problem becomes its end.

Those who stubbornly test their life for strength, sooner or later achieve their goal - effectively end it.

Don't chase after happiness. It is like a cat - it is useless to chase after it, but as soon as you go about your business, it will come and lie peacefully on your lap.

Every day can be the first and last in life - it all depends on how you look at this question.

Each new day is like a match taken out of the box of life: you must burn it to the ground, but be careful not to burn the precious supply of the remaining days.

People keep a diary of past events, and life is a diary of future events.

Only a dog is ready to love you for what you do, and not for what others think of you.

The meaning of life is not to achieve perfection, but to tell others about this achievement.

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There is only one true law - the one that allows you to become free. Richard Bach

In the building of human happiness, friendship builds walls, and love forms a dome. (Kozma Prutkov)

For every minute you are angry, sixty seconds of happiness are lost.

Happiness has never placed a person on such a height that he does not need others. (Seneca Lucius Annaeus - the Younger).

In search of joy and happiness, a person runs away from himself, although in reality the real source of joy is in himself. (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi)

If you want to be happy - be it!

Life is love, life is sustained by love in the indivisible (it is their means of reproduction); in this case, love is the medial force of nature; it adjoins the last link of creation to the beginning, repeated in it, therefore, love is a self-returning force of nature - a beginningless and infinite radius in the circle of the universe. Nikolai Stankevich

I see the goal - and I do not notice the obstacles!

In order to live freely and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It's not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach

The possession of all kinds of goods is not everything. To enjoy the possession of them is what happiness consists of. (Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais)

Corruption is everywhere, talent is rare. Therefore, venality has become a weapon of mediocrity that has flooded everything.

Unhappiness can also be an accident. Happiness is not luck or grace; happiness is a virtue or merit. (Grigory Landau)

The peoples have made freedom their idol, but where on earth is a free people?

Character can manifest itself in important moments, but it is created in small things. Philips Brooks

If you work towards your goals, then those goals will work for you. Jim Rohn

Happiness is not in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do!

Don't solve the problem, look for opportunities. George Gilder

If we do not take care of our reputation, others will do it for us, and they will certainly put us in a bad light.

Basically, it doesn't matter where you live. More or less amenities - that's not the point. What matters is what we spend our lives on.

I must lose myself in activity, otherwise I will die of despair. Tennyson

There is only one undoubted happiness in life - to live for another (Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky)

Human souls, like rivers and plants, also need rain. A special rain - hope, faith and the meaning of life. If there is no rain, everything in the soul dies. Paulo Coelho

Life is beautiful when you create it yourself. Sophie Marceau

Happiness sometimes falls so unexpectedly that you do not have time to jump aside.

Life itself should please a person. Happiness - misfortune, what a mercantile approach to life. Because of it, people often lose the feeling of the joy of being. Joy should be as essential to life as breathing. Goldermes

Happiness is pleasure without remorse. (L.N. Tolstoy)

The greatest happiness in life is the certainty that you are loved.

Any unambiguity primitives life

The whole real life of a person can deviate from his individual destiny, as well as from generally valid norms. With self-love, we perceive everyone, and therefore ourselves, entangled in a motley cover of illusions woven from stupidity, vanity, ambition, pride. Max Scheler

Suffering has great creative potential.

Each desire is given to you along with the forces necessary to fulfill it. Perhaps, however, for this you will have to work hard. Richard Bach

When you attack the heavens, you must take aim at God himself.

A small dose of stress restores our youth and vitality.

Life is a night spent in deep sleep, often turning into a nightmare. A. Schopenhauer

If you are intentionally going to be less than you can be, I warn you that you will be miserable for the rest of your life. Maslow

Everyone is exactly as happy as he knows how to be happy. (Dina Dean)

Whatever happens tomorrow must not poison today. Whatever happened yesterday must not choke tomorrow. We exist in the present, and it cannot be despised. The joy of a burning day is priceless, as life itself is priceless - there is no need to poison it with doubts and regrets. Vera Kamsha

Do not chase happiness, it is always in yourself.

Life is not an easy task, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Mizner

Happiness is not a reward for virtue, but virtue itself. (Spinoza)

Man is far from perfect. He is hypocritical sometimes more, sometimes less, and fools chatter that one is moral and the other is not.

Man exists when he chooses himself. A. Schopenhauer

Life goes on when the habitual way of life dies.

An individual does not have to be wiser than an entire nation.

We all live for the future. Not surprisingly, he is facing bankruptcy. Christian Friedrich Goebbel

It is important to learn to accept yourself, to appreciate yourself, no matter what others say about you.

To achieve happiness, three components are necessary: ​​a dream, faith in yourself and hard work.

No man is happy until he feels happy. (M.Avreliy)

True values ​​always sustain life because they lead to freedom and growth. T. Morez

Most people are like falling leaves; they rush through the air, whirl, but eventually fall to the ground. Others - a few of them - are like stars; they move along a certain path, no wind will make them turn off it; in themselves they bear their law and their way.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but we often do not notice it, staring at the closed door.

We reap in life what we have sown: whoever sows tears reaps tears; whoever betrayed will be betrayed. Luigi Settembrini

If the whole life of many comes unconsciously, then this life, however it may be. L. Tolstoy

If they were building a house of happiness, the largest room would have to be taken as a waiting room.

I see only two paths in life: stupid obedience or rebellion.

We live as long as we have hope. And if you've lost her, don't ever let yourself guess about it. And then something might change. V. Pelevin “The Hermit and the Six-fingered”

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best; they just do more of what they are better at.

If you are afraid of misfortunes, then there will be no happiness. (Peter the Great)

All our lives we do nothing but borrow from the future in order to pay off the present.

Happiness is such a monstrous thing that if you yourself do not burst from it, then it will require at least a couple of three murders from you.

Happiness is the ball that we chase as it rolls and that we push with our foot when it stops. (P. Buast)