Get inspired with a bit of wisdom!
Read through our library of wise words, best thought-provoking quotes, proverbs, and sayings from around the world and find your own sources of motivation and encouragement in life's journey.
Add a little sparkle to your day with timeless sayings that offer insight into life, the universe, and everything.

Selected aphorisms:
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
By George Orwell
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life, but so was yesterday, and look how that turned out.
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
— Oscar Wilde
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Normal people… believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.”
—Scott Adams
There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."
- Peter De Vries
“A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear they consider saying 'that smells good' to be helping.”
— Jimmy Fallon
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
– J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
"Karma is like a rubber band. It can only stretch so far until it comes back and smacks you in the face."
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
— Winston Churchill
Whenever a married man says, "I'll think about it," what he really means is that he doesn't know his wife's opinion yet.
- Eduardo Orefice