Only Quotes

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

The only journey is the one within.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.

We die only once, and for such a long time.