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

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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Work alone is noble.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Better be alone than in bad company.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

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

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

It is very easy to love alone.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

Health consists with temperance alone.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

You are forever alone.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.

I am alone I am always alone no matter what.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Love alone could waken love.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

By all means use some time to be alone.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

I want to be alone.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

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

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The doer alone learneth.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

To be adult is to be alone.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.