949 private quotes tagged alone

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.” — Lord Byron

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“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.” — Tennessee Williams

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“Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.” — Martin Luther

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“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

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“Testing oneself is best when done alone.” — Jimmy Carter

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“The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.” — Richard Branson

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“Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.” — Sophocles

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“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” — Alexander Pope

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“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“It is better to be alone than in bad company.” — George Washington

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“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.” — André Gide

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“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

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“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.” — James Madison

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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Change alone is unchanging.” — Heraclitus

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“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.” — Blaise Pascal

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“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Health consists with temperance alone.” — Alexander Pope

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“Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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