Yet Quotes

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. (Laozi)
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. View quote
Livy
Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. View quote
John Milton
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today. View quote
Fernando de Rojas
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. View quote
William Gibson
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. View quote
Erich Fromm
They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform. (William Shakespeare)
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. View quote
Poul Anderson
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. View quote
George Santayana
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. View quote
Edmund Burke
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. View quote
Isaac Asimov
No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted. (Will Arnett)
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. View quote
Thomas More
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. View quote
Henry Adams