Course Quotes

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. (Seneca)
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. View quote
Epicurus
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. View quote
Euripides
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship. View quote
Omar Bradley
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. View quote
Woody Allen
Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs? View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. View quote
John Tyler
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. View quote
Françoise Sagan
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. View quote
Terry Pratchett
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. (James Thurber)
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. View quote
Steve Ballmer
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. View quote
William S. Burroughs
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. View quote
Mickey Spillane
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. View quote
T. S. Eliot
All government, of course, is against liberty. (H. L. Mencken)
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. View quote
Frank Herbert
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. View quote
Peter Drucker