Quote 2048
Quotes by theme and author
Every collection opens with its first quotes, in the order they appear in Quote 2048: from a short proverb onward. The rest of the ladder — and the crown quote itself — unlocks in the app.
Themes
- BeginningsWell begun is half done
- CalmStill waters run deep
- CourageEnter the tiger's den to catch the tiger
- LoveEvery Jack has his Jill
- FriendshipFollow a friend to the ends of the earth
- TimeTime waits for no one
- LearningLearning is never wasted
- HappinessFortune favors the smiling house
- EffortHeaven helps those who help themselves
- Failure & ComebackFailure is the mother of success
- WordsOne word can repay a debt
- HabitA habit at three lasts to eighty
- TravelAsk even when you know the way
- NatureAs you sow, so shall you reap
- Life & DeathBetter to roll in mud alive than dead
- WisdomKnowledge is power
- FreedomThe caged bird longs for the sky
- LaughterLaughter brings fortune
- SimplicitySimple is best
- PatienceThree times "patience" avoids even murder
- ChangeStanding water rots
- GratitudeBe grateful even for a sip of water
- TodayThose who say tomorrow rarely succeed
- DreamsDreams come true
Author packs
- ShakespeareAll the world's a stage
- Socrates & PlatoNecessity is the mother of invention
- Roman WisdomWhile there's life, there's hope
- Virginia WoolfMrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself
- NietzscheThere are no facts, only interpretations
- Confucius & DisciplesReview the old to know the new
- Oscar WildeMost people exist, that is all
- TolstoyThe only important time is now
- AristotleAll men by nature desire to know.
- Marcus AureliusBe not ashamed to be helped
- Laozi & ZhuangziThe highest good is like water.
- GandhiTruth is God.
- Benjamin FranklinEarly to bed, early to rise makes one wise.
- GoetheWithout haste, but without rest
- DostoevskyI am a sick man
- KafkaWriting is a form of prayer
- Jane AustenVanity and pride are different things
- Mark TwainWhen with the majority, pause and reflect
- Emerson & ThoreauImitation is suicide
- SosekiNo human is without selfishness
- SenecaTo be everywhere is to be nowhere
- EpictetusBear and forbear
- MachiavelliWar is not avoided, only postponed
- Sun TzuAll warfare is based on deception
- Emily DickinsonA word is dead when it is said, some say — I say it just begins to live that day
- MontaigneWhat do I know?
- La RochefoucauldEveryone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment
- GraciánTalent and wit are the two axes of brilliance
- CaigentanWhere the path is narrow, stop and let another pass first
- Han FeiziDo not blow apart the fur to search for small flaws
- George EliotNothing is so good as it seems
- The Brontë SistersIt is foolish to wish for beauty
- Sei ShōnagonSpring is loveliest at dawn
- Heo NanseolheonThey call the south joy; I see sorrow
- SchopenhauerFate shuffles the cards; we play
- VoltaireOnly the good have friends