Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Authors by Name: V

Rudolph Valentino (2)

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Paul Valery (16)

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Jim Valvano (5)

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Ludwig van Beethoven (12)

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Martin Van Buren (2)

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (5)

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Mark Van Doren (2)

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Henry Van Dyke (11)

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Vincent Van Gogh (23)

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Cornelius Vanderbilt (2)

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Stevie Ray Vaughan (2)

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.

Jules Verne (3)

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Gianni Versace (5)

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

Sid Vicious (2)

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

David Viscott (2)

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Swami Vivekananda (9)

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Voltaire (78)

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Hans Urs von Balthasar (2)

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Otto von Bismarck (16)

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Wernher von Braun (3)

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Ludwig von Mises (10)

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.