Quotes · Skopia

171 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Missouri✕clear

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

1925

★ 9.1

It ain't over till it's over.

1973

★ 8.9

The buck stops here.

1945

★ 8.9

Personal journal

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

1932

★ 8.8

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

The Innocents Abroad · 1869

★ 7.8

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 7.7

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

1897

★ 7.3

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock · 1915

★ 7.1

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

1884

★ 7.1

Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

1932

★ 6.9

And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls."

1934

★ 6.9

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

1934

★ 6.9

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.

Burnt Norton · 1936

★ 6.9

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

1939

★ 6.9

Novel · Science fiction

An armed society is a polite society.

Robert A. Heinlein

1942

★ 6.9

Speech · Autobiography and memoir

Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

Mark Twain's Autobiography · 1910

★ 6.2

She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections · 2001

★ 6.2

Feminist literature

Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

Florynce Kennedy

1970

★ 6.0

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

1877

★ 6.0

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · 1876

★ 5.5

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