Quotes by occupation

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold quote: “Sad Patience, too near neighbor to despair…”

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Author quotes

Margot Asquith quote: “Rich men’s houses are seldom beautiful, rarely…”

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Poet quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: “Reviewers are usually people who would have…”

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Ancient wisdom

Titus Livius quote: “Rome has grown since its humble beginnings…”

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Inventor

Thomas A. Edison quote: “Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the…”

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Inventor

Thomas A. Edison quote: “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a…”

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon quote: “Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive…”

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold quote: “Resolve to be thyself: and know that…”

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens quote: “Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne…”

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Ancient wisdom

Titus Livius quote: “Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late…”

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri quote: “Remember tonight… for it is the beginning…”

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Poet quotes

William Cowper quote: “Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid…”

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Frederick II

Frederick II quote: “Religion is the idol of the mob;…”

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Author quotes

Lyman Abbott quote: “Religion is not a conclusion of the…”

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Inventor

Thomas A. Edison quote: “Religion is all bunk…”

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Anatole France

Anatole France quote: “Religion has done love a great service…”

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens quote: “Reflect upon your present blessings of which…”

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens quote: “Regrets are the natural property of grey…”

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Philosopher quotes

Thomas Carlyle quote: “Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no…”

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Poet quotes

William Cowper quote: “Reasoning at every step he treads, Man…”

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Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman quote: “Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey;…”

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges quote: “Reality is not always probable, or likely…”

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: “Realists do not fear the results of…”

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert quote: “Reality does not conform to the ideal…”

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges quote: “Reading is an activity subsequent to writing:…”

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George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver quote: “Reading about nature is fine, but if…”

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert quote: “Read much, but not many books…”

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert quote: “Read in order to live…”

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Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie quote: “Radium could be very dangerous in criminal…”

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Delphine de Girardin

Delphine de Girardin quote: “Proof that they do not understand the…”

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