Alexandre Dumas Quotes
French - Dramatist July 24, 1802 - December 5, 1870

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
Alexandre Dumas

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
Alexandre Dumas

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Alexandre Dumas

Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexandre Dumas

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Alexandre Dumas

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
Alexandre Dumas

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Alexandre Dumas

All for one, one for all, that is our device.
Alexandre Dumas

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
Alexandre Dumas

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Alexandre Dumas

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
Alexandre Dumas



Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes
American - Novelist July 24, 1819 - October 12, 1881

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

The temple of art is built in words.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Calmness is the cradle of power.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Ideals are the world's masters.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

'Work and wait', 'work and wait' is what God says to us in creation.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

A mind grows by what it feeds on.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
Josiah Gilbert Holland


Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
American - Writer July 24, 1900 - March 10, 1948

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
Zelda Fitzgerald

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
Zelda Fitzgerald

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Zelda Fitzgerald

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
Zelda Fitzgerald

Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
Zelda Fitzgerald


John D. MacDonald Quotes
Novelist July 24, 1916 - December 28, 1986

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
John D. MacDonald

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald