Short quotes

Collection of phrases and short quotes to share on your social networks.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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The selfish person would be capable of setting fire to the neighbor's house to fry an egg.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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A man is willing to believe what he would like to be true.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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The experience of centuries proves that luxury heralds the decline of empires.

Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell

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Try to leave this world a little better than you found it.

Joan Baez

Joan Baez

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If you don't fight to end corruption and decay, you will end up becoming part of it.

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

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It is good to be free from vices, but it is very bad to have no temptations.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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The state is an immense cemetery where all manifestations of individual life go to be buried.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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Uniformity is death; diversity is life.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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The state is a historically temporary mechanism, a transitory form of society.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

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Above talent are common values: discipline, love, good luck, but above all, tenacity.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

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The war would end if the dead could come back.