A Capsule of Timeless Quotes

There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.
There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.
Author: Gordon Strachan
Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
Author: R. D. Laing
Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
Author: William James
Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.
Author: Gordon B. Hinckley
Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.
Author: Pope Francis
Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.
Author: Martin Luther
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.
Author: Charles Bukowski
Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart -- a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
Author: Pablo Neruda
I don't like it here anymore I can't stand this town
Author: The Fight
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Author: Chanakya
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Author: Samuel Johnson
As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.
Author: Ezekiel 18:3
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
Author: James Russell Lowell
It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.
Author: Taylor Swift
What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.
Author: Julia Cameron
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
Author: Thomas A. Edison
For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.
Author: Philippe Starck