Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Peculiarity

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist

I’m human; nothing that is human is strange to me. A good run is better than a bad fight.
Polish Proverb

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so that they have no freedom, neither in their persons, in their actions, nor in their times.—It is a strange desire to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) English Novelist, Essayist

It is strange but true; for truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

I have been a stranger in a strange land.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men-above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

Men don’t build on strange ground.
Yiddish Proverb

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Herman Melville (1819–91) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Poet

We have a strange and wonderful relationship — he’s strange and I’m wonderful.
Mike Ditka (b.1939) American Sportsperson

All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey (1933–2021) Hungarian-Canadian Writer

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist

The only living life is in the past and future—the present is an interlude—strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.
Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953) American Playwright

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.
Frank Lane (1896–1981) American Sportsperson, Businessperson

Education helps one cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Rene Descartes (1596–1650) French Mathematician, Philosopher

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish Novelist, Lecturer, Poet

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
Eliza Cook (1818–89) English Author, Poet

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American Actor, Comedian, Singer

‘Tis strange what a man may do and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

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