When we reach a more advanced level in our knowledge of English, we have the desire to discuss serious topics related to philosophy, politics, society. In deep conversations, many love to use famous quotes about love or life.
They always contribute to the persuasion of the interlocutor, help to build the argument and to express the thoughts. You can also use these quotes for photos, Instagram, or Facebook, to grab the attention of your virtual friends, and to share certain moods.
In this article, we have prepared a list of famous quotes, but it is important to understand that the translation cannot be word-for-word and that even the slightest mistake can completely distort the meaning. That’s why it’s best to memorize some famous quotes.
All the quotes of the great personalities presented in the article are divided into conditional paragraphs, such as famous short quotes.
Thanks to this cataloging, you will be able to quickly switch to those aphorisms that are of particular interest to you, for example about family and friendship.
Short quotes about life
The intelligent thoughts of famous personalities are, for the most part, universal for the whole world. Moreover, this is true for universal values, such as friendship, love, beauty, the meaning of life.
Here we have collected short quotes, where you can read about the smile or other beautiful human states, once said by the great philosophers, writers and stars.
π¬ A day without laughter is a day wasted. (A day without laughter is a day wasted) Charlie Chaplin
π¬ Laughter is America’s most important export. (Laughter is the biggest export in the US) Walt Disney
π¬ Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. (Laughs whenever you can. This is the cheapest medicine) George Byron
π¬ If love is the treasure, laughter is the key. (If love is a treasure, laughter is the key) Yakov Smirnov
π¬ Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. (Laughter is the sun that drives winter away from a person’s face) Victor Hugo
π¬ Miracles happen to those who believe in them. (Miracles happen to those who believe in them) Bernhard Berenson
π¬ To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. (There is nothing worse for jealousy than laughter) Francoise Sagan
π¬ Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. (Put the wood on the fire yourself and you’ll warm up twice) Henry Ford
Don’t I donβt care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all. (I don’t care what you think of me, I don’t think about you at all) Coco Chanel
π¬ The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (The weak never forgive. Forgiveness is a property of the strong) Mahatma Gandhi
π¬ Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. (Success is the ability to move from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm) Winston Churchill
π¬ While we are postponing, life speeds by. (As we set all things aside for later, life passes) Seneca
π¬ If you donβt think about the future, you canβt have one. (If you don’t think about the future, you won’t have it) Galsworthy
π¬ The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. (The great goal of education is not knowledge, but action) Herbert Spencer
- Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. (Education is a gradual understanding of our own ignorance) William James Durant
- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them more) Oscar Wilde
- I am not young enough to know everything. (I’m not young enough to know everything) Oscar Wilde
- Adults are just outdated children. (Adults are just obsolete children) Dr. Seuss
- It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream. (Happiness is the ability to be surprised, happiness is the ability to dream) Edgar Alan Poe
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (Beauty is in the eye of the beholder) Oscar Wilde
π¬ Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (Autumn is the second spring, where every leaf is a flower) Albert Camus
π¬ To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all. (Living is the rarest thing in the world. Most people only exist) Oscar Wilde
π¬ The best revenge is massive success. (The best revenge is a huge success) Frank Sinatra
π¬ We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way we are. (We don’t see things as they are. We look at them our way) Talmud
π¬ Envy is the ulcer of the soul. (Envy is a plague of the soul) Socrates
π¬ Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. (Tact is the ability to describe others as they see / represent themselves) Abraham Linkoln
π¬ The best way to predict the future is to create it. (The best way to predict the future is to create it) Peter Drucker
π¬ Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Genius is 1% inspiration and 99 percent perspiration) Thomas Edison
π¬ Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. (Fill your mind with great thoughts; believe that heroic deeds give birth to heroes) Benjamin Disrael
π¬ I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference. (I prefer stupid enthusiasm to indifference)Oscar Wilde
π¬ The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. (The true nature of a person can be determined by the way he entertains himself) Reynolds
- To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must be well-mannered. (To succeed in this world, it is not enough just to be stupid, you still have to have good manners) Voltaire
- Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down. (Be kind to the people you meet on the road when you are upstairs, because you will meet them when you go down) Mizner
- A friendship founded on business is better thfn a businees founded on friendship. (Friendship-based business is better than business-based friendship) Rockefeller
- The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. (The thinner the ice, the more everyone wants to know if it can withstand.) Billings
- Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so. (Lives after income, even if you have to borrow money for it) Billings
π¬ Death and taxes are inevitable. (Death and taxes are inevitable) Haliburton
π¬ It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. (It often happens that it is better not to notice the insult than to take revenge later) Seneca
π¬ I don’t beleive in principle, but I do in interest. (I don’t believe in principles, but I believe in interest) Lowell
Beautiful quotes aboutΒ life, love and friendship
When emotions overwhelm you and you want to express them nicely in verbal form or on social networks, but you do not know how, use the wisdom of famous personalities and these beautiful quotes.
π¬ There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see. (Accidents do not exist. What we call them is a consequence of some reason, inaccessible to our eyes) Voltaire
ise Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. (The wise say because they have something to say, the fools – because they have to say something) Plato
π¬ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. (Big minds discuss ideas. Medium – events. Small – people) Eleanor Roosevelt
π¬ In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends) Martin Luther King
π¬ Only two things we’ll regret on deathbed – that we are a little loved and little traveled. (We will only regret two things on our deathbed: that we loved a little and traveled a little) Mark Twain
π¬ Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Greeks often met with fierce confrontation with mediocre minds) Albert Einstein
π¬ A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. (A banker is a guy who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but he wants to take it as soon as it starts to rain) Mark Twain
π¬ It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. (Our fears are like fire and water – they are good servants, but bad masters) Aesop
π¬ An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. (Investing in knowledge always pays off) Benjamin Franklin
π¬ I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. (I love pigs. Dogs look at us from the bottom up. Cats – from the top down. Pigs treat us like equals.) Winston Churchill
π¬ Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. (You have something you can always carry with you: you know languages, you know countries, you know people. Let it be your travel bag – your memory) Alexandru Solzhenitsyn
π¬ Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere. (Logic takes you from point A to point B. Imagination takes you anywhere) Albert Einstein
π¬ Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful. (The translation is like the woman: if she is beautiful, then she is wrong and if she is true, then she is most likely ugly) Evgeny Evtushenko
π¬ HAPPYNESS is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. (Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony) Mahatma Gandhi
π¬ I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. (Half of you know half of them better than I would like, and half love them half less than I would like to) JRR Tolkien
π¬ When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. (When a true genius appears, you can only recognize him because all the fools are united in the fight against him) Jonathan Swift
π¬ Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. (Life is like cycling. In order not to lose your balance, we need to keep moving.) Albert Einstein
π¬ Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Simplify everything if possible, but not more than possible) Albert Einstein
π¬ Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Sometimes it is impossible to calculate what is to be counted and we do not take into account what can be counted) Albert Einstein
π¬ When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (When everything seems against you, remember that an airplane needs an opposite current rather than a simultaneous airflow to take off). Henry Ford
π¬ If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it. (If something didn’t work at first, try again and again. Then give it up. Why be silly
) WCFields
π¬ Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required. (Sometimes it is not enough to do everything possible, but you have to do everything that is required) Winston Churchill
- A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself to keep his friends in countenance. (A generous person should have several shortcomings so as not to upset his friends) Franklin
- Let us be thankful for the fools: but for them the rest of us could not succeed. (Be thankful that there are fools in the world: if not them, the rest may become unlucky). Mark Twain
- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the main difference between a dog and a man. (If you take a hungry dog ββand give it a luxurious life, it will never bite you. This is the main difference between a dog and a person) Mark Twain
- We drink one another’s health and spoil our own. (Drinking for the other person’s health, destroying our own health at this time) Jerome
- Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. (Honesty is the best policy if you make money) Mark Twain
- An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. (The best husband a woman can have is an archaeologist: the older she gets, the more interest the man will show in her) Christie
- Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. (Ignorance is the night of our minds, but a night without moon and stars) Confucius
π¬ Imagination is not a talent of some men but is a health of every man. (Imagination is not a special talent, but everyone’s health) Emerson
π¬ Are you one of those people who uses words more for sound than for the sense of them
?
) Dean Koontz
π¬ Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. (Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they go) Rita Mae Brown
π¬ What does it matter if you can speak two or more languages ββif you have nothing original to say in any language
(What if you can speak two or more languages ββif you have nothing original to say in any language
) Jarod Kintz
π¬ An optimist is a man who is chased up a tree by a lion but enjoys the scenery anyway. (An optimist is a man who is chased by a lion, but enjoys the scenery anyway) Walter Winchell
Famous quotes about life
The list of the best famous quotes is individual for everyone. It will depend on the person’s profession and the range of interests. But there are universal themes, the most relevant of which is life. In this paragraph we have gathered several well-known quotes about life, where you can discern some sub-themes: quotes about freedom, about the meaning of life, about fate.
π All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. (The whole world is made of faith, trust and fairy pollen) James Matthew Barry
π There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (There are only two ways to live your life. The first is to believe that nothing is a miracle. The second is to believe that everything is a miracle)Albert Einstein
π Nothing, everything, anything, something: if you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something. (Nothing, everything, everything, something: if you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without fear of losing something) Jarod Kinz
π Everything you can imagine is real. (Everything you can imagine is true) Pablo Picasso
π And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. (When you want something, the whole universe conspires to help you do it) Paolo Coelho
π Promise me youβll always remember: Youβre braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (Promise that you will always remember: you are braver than you think, stronger than you look and smarter than you think) Alan Alexander Milne
π Your life is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be opened. (Your life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be revealed) Wayne Miller
π Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. (Life is too serious to talk about seriously) O. Wilde
π Our life is what our thoughts make it. (Our life is what we think about it) M. Aurelius
π Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. (Smile, because life is a wonderful thing, and there are many reasons to smile) M. Monroe
π Life is a series of choices. (Life is a series of choices) Nostradamus
- The purpose of life is to live correctly, think correctly, and act correctly. (The purpose of life is to live right, think right, and act right) M. Gandhi
- As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. (As long as man mercilessly destroys inferior beings, he will never know health and peace. As long as people kill animals, they will kill each other) Pythagoras
- The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool. (The first thing you learn in life is that you are a fool. The last thing you learn is that you are still the same fool) R. Bradbury
- The first half of life consists of the ability to enjoy without the chance, the last half consists of the chance without the ability. (The first half of life consists of the ability to have fun in the absence of opportunities; the second half consists of opportunities in the absence of ability) Mark Twain
- A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. (A person is happy as long as he chooses to be happy) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
π Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. (Follow the path of your dreams with confidence. Live the life you have always imagined) Ralph Waldo Emerson
π May you live all the days of your life! (Live every day of your life!) Jonathan Swift
π If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old. (If you don’t learn to laugh out of trouble, in old age you won’t have anything to laugh about) Howe
π Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands. (Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will get dirty) Parker
π A weel-wtitten life ia almost as rare as a well-spent one. (A well-described life is almost as rare as a well-lived one) Carlyle
π It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck. (If a person does not believe in luck, this is a sign of a poor life experience) Conrad
π Health is the primary duty of life. (Health is the main duty in life) Oscar Wilde
π History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. (History is a bunch of false stories about events that didn’t happen, told by people who were never there) George Santayana
Love quotes
People can talk about feelings indefinitely and in different life situations, whether it’s a meeting with a friend over a cup of coffee or a discussion about the new episode released in the popular series.
To bring the subject of love to a higher intellectual level in conversations, it will be helpful to add a note as well.
Great artists, connoisseurs of beauty, poets, musicians have formulated wonderful love quotes, which we can also use for declarations of love.
π The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and thatβs it. (The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic in that. You meet someone and fall in love – that’s all) Woody Allen
π Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. (Many people want to take a limousine with you, but what you really need is the person who will get on the bus with you when the limousine breaks down) Oprah Winfrey
π I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I donβt know any other way of loving but this. (I love you, without knowing how, when or where. I love you, without problems or pride: I love you like that, because I don’t know any other way to love) Pablo Neruda
π A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. (A woman knows the face of the man she loves in the same way a sailor knows the open sea) Honore de Balzac
π Even when love isn’t enoughβ¦ somehow it is. (Even when love is not enough, it is somehowβ¦ enough) Stephen King
π Love is a nature. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. (Love is fire. But if it warms your heart or burns down your house, you can never say for sure) Joan Crawford
π Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; Does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. (Love is painful but merciful; love does not envy; love is not exalted, it is not proud, it does not act disgustingly, it does not seek its own favors, it does not get angry, it does not believe in evil, it does not rejoice over injustice, but it rejoices in truth) Apostle Paul
π If you love something set it free; if it comes back, it’s yours. If it doesn’t it never was. (If you love something, let it go. If it’s yours, then it’ll be back. If not, then it was never yours) Richard Bach
π For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. (True love is inexhaustible: the more you give it, the more you receive. And if you go with water to the true source, then the more you bring out, the more abundant its flow) Antoine de Saint-Exupery
π Love is a friendship set to music. (Love is a friendship transferred to music) Joseph Campbell
π Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. (Always keep love in your heart. Life without love is a sunless garden, where all the flowers have long since dried up) Oscar Wilde
π To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction. (Love does not mean looking each other in the eye, but looking in the same direction) Antoine de Saint-Exupery
π The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. (The one you love and the one who loves you are always different people) Chuck Palahniuk
π To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. (Self-love is the beginning of a lifelong novel) Oscar Wilde
π Love is delusion that one woman differs from another. (Love is the mistake that one woman is different from another.) Mencken
π It is better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. (Better to love and lose love than not to love at all ) Alfred Tennyson
π Love is friendship set on fire. (Love is the passion in the fire) Jeremy Taylor
π Love is the key to victory. (Love is the key to victory) Camelia OpriΘa
π True love stories never have endings. (True love stories never end) Richard Bach
Motivational quotes
Such motivational quotes are full of profound significance. They encourage people to act, inspire faith, help them not give up.
β The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. (The biggest risk is not to take any risks. In a fast-changing world, one strategy guarantees failure: no risks) Mark Zuckerberg
β Work hard to get what you like, otherwise you’ll be forced to just like what you get. (Work hard to get what you love, otherwise you’ll have to love what you got) Bernard Show
β When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. (If you do something beautiful and sublime, and no one notices, don’t be upset: the sun has a beautiful view every morning, but most viewers are still asleep right now) John Lennon
β Choose a job you love, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. (Choose a job you like and you won’t have to work a day in your life) Confucius
β In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (At the heart of the problem is the opportunity) Albert Einstein
β And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. (If you look too long in the abyss, the abyss begins to look at you) Friedrich Nietzsche
β The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (The roots of studies are bitter, but the fruits are sweet) Aristotle
β Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. (We are glorious not because we never fall, but because we stand up whenever this happens) Confucius
β Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. (Political language was invented to tell the real lie, and crime – respectful, as well as to give the appearance of solidity to an empty sound) George Orwell
never I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. (I never dreamed of success. I worked for him) Estee Lauder
β A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. (A dream doesn’t come true because of magic; it takes effort, determination, and hard work) Colin Powell
β When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process. (In preparation for war, tyrannical leaders talk more and more about peace; this continues until the mobilization process is over) Stefan Zweig
β Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come. (“I did everything I could now,” he thought. This was the beginning of the fight.) Ernest Hemingway
β Be great in act, as you have been in thought. (Be as brave in your actions as you were in your thoughts) William Shakespeare
β Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. (Although no one can go back in time and start all over again, everyone can start right now and end a whole new ending) Carl Bard
β Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. (Take responsibility for your life. Know that only you can arrange everything for yourself, no one else) Les Brown
β Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan. (No one planned to get poor, fat, or lazy. These things happen when you don’t have a plan) Larry Winget
β The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible. (The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the willingness to try and the belief in opportunity) Joel Brown
β Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. (Difficulties are what make life more interesting, and overcoming them makes it meaningful) Joshua J. Marine
β The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. (The only way to do the perfect job is to love what you’re doing. If you haven’t found one yet, keep looking) Steve Jobs
β I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself. (I’m grateful to everyone who said NO to me. Thanks to them, I can handle myself.) Albert
Einstein So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. (After 20 years, you’ll regret more things you’ve done than things you’ve done. So put the bans aside. Explore. Dream. Discover) Mark Twain
β Failure doesn’t mean I have wasted my life; it does mean that I have an excuse to start over. (Failure doesn’t mean I’ve lost my life. It means I have an excuse to start over)Robert H. Schuller
β You see things and say ‘Why
‘, but I dream things and say ‘Why not
‘
George
Bernard Shaw
β All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. (All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to follow them) Walt Disney
β I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. (I didn’t fail, I just found 10,000 ways that don’t work) Thomas Edison
β Success is 99% failure. (Success means 99% failure) Soichiro Honda
β Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. (Great work is done, not by force, but by perseverance) Samuel Johnson
β With hard work, learning English, and getting involved, there is no limit to what you can achieve. (With hard work, English learning and involvement, there is no limit to what you can accomplish) Arnold Schwarzenegger
