Index by Authors: Top Authors
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Abraham Lincoln
(106) Lawyer, politician 16thPresident of the United States[Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth]
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Alan Greenspan
(77) American Economist
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Albert Camus
(70) French novelist, essayist and dramatist [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957]
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Albert Einstein
(116) German-Statless-Swiss-Austrian -American scientist
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Aldous Huxley
(67) British author ['Brave New World']
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Alexander Pope
(77) English poet and satirist
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Ambrose Bierce
(75) American newspaperman and short-story writer
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Anonymous
(1299)
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Aristotle
(91) Greek philosopher and scientist [Tutor of Alexander the Great]
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Arthur Schopenhauer
(60) German philosopher['Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung']
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Barack Obama
(131) American Politician
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Benjamin Disraeli
(105) British politician and author [Prime Minister of the UK from February 20, 1874 to April 21, 1880]
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Benjamin Franklin
(184) American statesman, scientist, print-publisher and philosopher
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Bertrand Russell
(78) British logician and philosopher [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950]
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Bill Gates
(140) American Businessman
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Blaise Pascal
(62) French mathematician, physicist and philosopher
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Charles Caleb Colton
(84) British clergyman, sportsman and author [well known for his eccentrities]
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Chinese proverb
(79)
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Confucius
(72) Chinese philosopher
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D. H. Lawrence
(53) English writer. 'Women in Love', 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
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David Cameron
(53) British Politician
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Donald Trump
(54) American Businessman
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Edmund Burke
(61) British political writer
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Eric Hoffer
(80) American moral and social philosopher and author
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Ernest Hemingway
(56) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]
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Francis Bacon
(104) British statesman and philosopher
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François de La Rochefoucauld
(130) French Writerand philosopher
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Friedrich Nietzsche
(125) German philosopher and writer
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Friedrich Schiller
(55) German poet, playwright, writer, historian and philosopher.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
(72) German scientist, satirist and anglophile
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George Bernard Shaw
(185) Irish playwright, critic, political activist
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George Eliot
(109) British novelist ['Middlemarch']
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George Santayana
(61) American philosopher and poet Born in Madrid]
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George W. Bush
(89) American Politician
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(91) British journalist, novelist and poet ['Father Brown', 'Orthodoxy', 'The Everlasting Man']
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Henry David Thoreau
(191) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist
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Henry Louis Mencken
(96) American journalist, essayist, satirist and social critic
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Henry Miller
(65) American author
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(70) American poet and educator
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Henry Ward Beecher
(90) American politician, social reformer
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Hillary Clinton
(204) American Politician
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Horace
(84) Roman lyric poet ['Odes', 'Satires', 'Ars Poetica']
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Jean de la Bruyère
(56) French satiric moralist
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
(54) French-Swiss political philosopher and essayist
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
(239) German poet, novelist and dramatist
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John D. Rockefeller
(79) American business magnate and philanthropist
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John F. Kennedy
(66) 35th President of the USA [ Assassinated in Dallas]
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John Milton
(52) English poet, polemicist, man of letters
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John Ruskin
(83) English weiter and art critic
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Joseph Addison
(51) English essayist, poet, and dramatist
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Josh Billings
(65) American humorist and lecturer
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Lord Byron
(142) British poet and politician
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Lord Chesterfield
(61) British statesman and man of letters
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Mahatma Gandhi
(81) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism[Assassination by shooting]
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Marcus Tulius Cicero
(114) Writer,lawyer, politician and great roman orator
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Margaret Thatcher
(65) British statewoman
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Margaret Thatcher
(65) English Leader
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Mark Twain
(203) American humorist, writer, and lecturer
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Mark Zuckerberg
(59) American Businessman
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Matt Groening
(90) American Cartoonist
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Michelle Bachelet
(53) Chilean Politician
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Miguel de Cervantes
(58) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
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Montaigne
(97) French statesman, philosopher and essayist
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Napoleon Hill
(83) American speaker and motivational Writer['Think and Grow Rich', 'The Law of Success']
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Nelson Mandela
(71) South African Politician
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Norman Vincent Peale
(58) American protestant preacher and author
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Oliver Goldsmith
(90) Irish writer, poet, and physician [Novel:'The Vicar of Wakefield']
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
(71) American physician and poet,
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Orison Swett Marden
(259) American author and founder of Success magazine
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Otto von Bismarck
(57) Prussian German statesman and aristocrat [1st Chancellor of Germany]
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Pierre Beaumarchais
(69) French dramatist
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Plutarch
(230) Greek essayist, historian and biographer
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Proverb
(57)
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Rainer Maria Rilke
(468) Austro-German poet
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Robert Burton
(57) English scholar
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Robin Williams
(63) American Comedian
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Samuel Beckett
(84) Irish writer, dramatist and poet, ['¨Waiting for Godot' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969]
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Samuel Butler
(230) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(130) British poet, critic, and philosopher
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Simone de Beauvoir
(63) French novelist and essayist
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Sir Thomas Browne
(57) English author And polymath
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Stephen Hawking
(191) English Physicist
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Steve Jobs
(100) American Businessman
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Ted Turner
(57) American Businessman
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Thomas B. Macaulay
(154) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet
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Thomas de Quincey
(76) British author and intellectual
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Thomas Hobbes
(82) British philosopher
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Tony Blair
(65) English Politician
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Umberto Eco
(59) Italian novelist, semiotician, essayist, philosopher and critic
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Vincent van Gogh
(61) Dutch painter
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Virginia Woolf
(92) British novelist and essayist ['To the lighthouse', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'Orlando']
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Vladimir Putin
(93) Russian Politician
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W. H. Auden
(53) English-born poet and man of letters
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Walt Disney
(95) American Cartoonist
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Walter Benjamin
(53) German philosopher and cultural critic, associated with the 'Frankfurt School'
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Warren Buffett
(59) American Businessman
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Wentworth Dillon
(57) English poet and scholar
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Will Rogers
(58) American humorist and actor
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William Faulkner
(86) American novelist and short-story Writer['As I Lay Dying', 'Absalom, Absalom!' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949]
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William Hazlitt
(78) British essayist and literary critic
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William J. Clinton
(56) American Politician
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William Penn
(267) British religious leader
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William Wordsworth
(106) English Romantic poet ['Lyrical Ballads']
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(51) Austrian Musician
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(51) Austrian composer. Prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.