Editorial »

Most Popular Quotes

Here are our most popular quotes as computed based on our visitors ranking.

Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Cree Indian Prophecy

4.20 / 327 votes

From the wounded soul comes poetry and music. In return, music and poetry heals the soul.

Danielle Ever Rose

4.93 / 222 votes

The lover steals a kiss, He is under penalty of perpetuity.

Charles de LEUSSE

4.98 / 192 votes

I exist somewhere in between yesterday’s sun and tonight’s darkness, standing on the edge of tomorrow, waiting for a shooting star.

Danielle Ever Rose

4.90 / 165 votes

I was stuck in a world where Heaven and Hell collided, a place where angels come to cry... A place called Earth.”

Danielle Ever Rose

4.93 / 153 votes

Dreams are like poetry, they don’t have to make sense to be beautiful.

Danielle Ever Rose

4.86 / 142 votes

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Otto von Bismark

5.00 / 115 votes

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Ben Jonson

4.97 / 105 votes

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Proverb

4.51 / 108 votes

Just live and be free, not every story ends in tragedy. Just wait and see, make a date with your destiny.

Danielle Ever Rose

4.93 / 94 votes

Civilization culminates in the power-press. It is the grand total of the difference between a boastful United Statian and a beastly Hottentot, —between Yankee Doodle and Timbucktoodle

Little Rock

5.00 / 89 votes

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be.

Unknown

4.30 / 102 votes

Tomorrow I'll think of some way . . . after all, tomorrow is another day.

Scarlett O'Hara

4.14 / 97 votes

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

4.97 / 79 votes

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

Bjarne Stroustrup

4.53 / 84 votes

It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

4.58 / 82 votes

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin

4.67 / 76 votes

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.

Paul Gauguin

4.70 / 75 votes

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.

Chinese Proverb

3.96 / 85 votes

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Francis Picabia

5.00 / 66 votes

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

Hammurabi

4.39 / 75 votes

The peaceful side of nature, speaks to our soul in whispers.”

Danielle Ever Rose

4.94 / 66 votes

Faith without love is to be in people’s bondage. Love without faith, is to be in your own bondage.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

5.00 / 65 votes

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

William Shakespeare

4.83 / 65 votes

We need you!

Help build the largest human-edited quotes collection on the web!

Quiz

Are you a quotes master?

»
Who said "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."?
A Robert A. Heinlein
B Isaac Asimov
C Poul Anderson
D Kurt Vonnegut