Quotes · Skopia

282 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Statement type·Metaphor, analogy and simile✕clear

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

1932

★ 1.0

Interview · Magazine

A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

Paris Review · 1954

★ 1.0

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

1960

★ 1.0

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting · 1979

★ 1.0

Obituary · Magazine

It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Life Magazine · 1995

★ 1.0

Scripture · Religious literature

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Hosea, 8:7

710 BC

★ 1.1

For when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done.

1557

★ 1.1

Play · Tragedy (play)

As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods; They kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

King Lear · 1606

★ 1.1

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 1.2

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

1862

★ 1.3

Personal journal

Perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

1519

★ 1.4

Philosophical literature

We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it there out of the best materials.

1921

★ 1.7

Philosophical literature

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

Charles Sanders Peirce

1966

★ 1.7

Scripture · Religious literature

Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

Luke 15:6

61

★ 1.8

There's an experienced rebel, Time, And in his squadrons Poverty; There's Age that brings along with him A terrible artillery: And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown, Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down.

1682

★ 1.8

Personal journal

There is always something spiritual about the approach of winter. You retire into your innermost chambers and camp near the small glow you find there.

★ 1.8

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark; yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.

1593

★ 1.9

Play · History (play)

The saying is true: “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.”

William Shakespeare

Henry V · 1599

★ 1.9

Play · Tragedy (play)

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra · 1607

★ 1.9

Pale death, the grand physician, cures all pain; The dead rest well who lived for joys in vain.

1841

★ 1.9

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