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Famous Quotes By Samuel Johnson

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
No man was ever great by imitation.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
The future is purchased by the present.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Famous Quotes By H. L. Mencken

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
All government, of course, is against liberty.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
Time stays, we go.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Famous Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
A home without books is a body without soul.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Hatred is inveterate anger.
Hatred is settled anger.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
In time of war the laws are silent.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Laws are silent in time of war.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Nature abhors annihilation.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
The more laws, the less justice.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Thrift is of great revenue.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
While there's life, there's hope.

Famous Quotes By Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A joke is a very serious thing.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
History is written by the victors.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Famous Quotes By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
All art is but imitation of nature.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
For greed all nature is too little.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
If you wished to be loved, love.
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
No man was ever wise by chance.
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Time discovers truth.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Famous Quotes By Steve Jobs

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.
Things don't have to change the world to be important.
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.
We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

Famous Quotes By Victor Hugo

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
A library implies an act of faith.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Conscience is God present in man.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
People do not lack strength they lack will.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
To love beauty is to see light.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Toleration is the best religion.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Famous Quotes By Hillary Clinton

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

Dynamism is a function of change.

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

I believe in delegating power.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

Famous Quotes By William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
But men are men the best sometimes forget.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
Death is a fearful thing.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
I bear a charmed life.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
If music be the food of love, play on.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
Men's vows are women's traitors!
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Speak low, if you speak love.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
They do not love that do not show their love.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Famous Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli

Famous Quotes Benjamin Disraeli

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Finality is not the language of politics.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
I say that justice is truth in action.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Justice is truth in action.
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Never complain and never explain.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Success is the child of audacity.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
There is no education like adversity.
There is no gambling like politics.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Travel teaches toleration.
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
War is never a solution it is an aggravation.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
We cannot learn men from books.
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Famous Quotes By Bertrand Russell

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.

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