Famous Quotes By George Eliot

 

1. A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
2. A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
3. All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
4. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
5. And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
6. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
7. Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
8. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
9. But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
10. But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
11. Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
12. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
13. Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
14. Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
15. Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
16. For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
17. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
18. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
19. I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
20. I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
21. I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
22. I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
23. I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
24. In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
25. In every parting there is an image of death.
26. In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
27. In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
28. Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
29. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
30. It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
31. Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
32. Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
33. Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
34. Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
35. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
36. More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
37. No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
38. No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
39. Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
40. Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
41. Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
42. Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
43. The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
44. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
45. The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
46. The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
47. The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
48. The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
49. The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
50. There are many victories worse than a defeat.
51. There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
52. There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
53. There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
54. There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
55. Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
56. We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
57. We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
58. Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
59. When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
60. When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
61. When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
62. Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
63. You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Famous Quotes By Aldous Huxley

 

1. A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
2. A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
3. A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
4. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
5. All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
6. An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
7. Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
8. Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
9. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
10. Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
11. De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
12. Dream in a pragmatic way.
13. Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
14. Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
15. Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
16. Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
17. Experience teaches only the teachable.
18. From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
19. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
20. Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
21. Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
22. I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
23. Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
24. It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
25. It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
26. It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
27. Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
28. Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
29. Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
30. Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
31. Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
32. One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
33. People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
34. Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
35. Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
36. Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
37. So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
38. Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
39. Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
40. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
41. That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
42. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
43. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
44. The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
45. The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
46. The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
47. The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
48. The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
49. The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
50. The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
51. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
52. There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
53. There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
54. Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
55. To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
56. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
57. We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
58. What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
59. What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
60. What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
61. Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
62. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
63. You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
64. Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Famous Quotes By Will Rogers

 

1. A fool and his money are soon elected.
2. A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
3. A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
4. Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
5. America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
6. An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
7. Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
8. Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
9. Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
10. Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
11. Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
12. Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
13. Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
14. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
15. Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
16. I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
17. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
18. I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
19. I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
20. I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
21. If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
22. If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
23. If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
24. If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
25. If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
26. If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
27. I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
28. In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
29. It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
30. It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
31. It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
32. Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
33. Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
34. Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
35. Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
36. Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
37. On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
38. People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
39. Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
40. Politics is applesauce.
41. So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
42. Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
43. The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
44. The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
45. The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
46. The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
47. The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
48. The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
49. The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
50. The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
51. The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
52. The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
53. There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
54. There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
55. There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
56. There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
57. Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
58. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
59. We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
60. We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
61. We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
62. When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
63. Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
64. You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Famous Quotes By Jonathan Sacks

 

1. A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
2. A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
3. A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.
4. Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
5. Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.
6. Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
7. Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
8. Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
9. Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
10. Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
11. Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
12. God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
13. Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
14. If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
15. If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
16. In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
17. In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude,
18. In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
19. Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.
20. Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
21. Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
22. Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
23. Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?
24. Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
25. Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
26. Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
27. Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
28. Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
29. The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
30. The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
31. The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.
32. The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
33. The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
34. There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.
35. To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
36. True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
37. We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
38. We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
39. While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.
40. While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

Famous Quotes By Honore de Balzac

 

1. A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
2. A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
3. A mother who is really a mother is never free.
4. A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
5. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
6. A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
7. All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
8. At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
9. Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
10. But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
11. Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
12. Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
13. Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.
14. Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
15. Finance, like time, devours its own children.
16. First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
17. For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
18. Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
19. I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
20. Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
21. If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
22. It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
23. It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
24. It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.
25. It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
26. Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
27. Love is the poetry of the senses.
28. Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
29. Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
30. Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
31. Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
32. Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
33. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
34. Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
35. Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
36. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
37. Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
38. Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
39. Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
40. Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
41. Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
42. Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
43. Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
44. The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
45. The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
46. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
47. The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
48. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
49. The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
50. The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
51. The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
52. There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
53. There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
54. There is something great and terrible about suicide.
55. To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
56. Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
57. True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
58. We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
59. What is art? Nature concentrated.
60. When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
61. When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
62. Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
63. Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Famous Quotes By Paul Ryan

 

1. A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.
2. Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
3. And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.
4. And to this day, my Mom is my role model.
5. Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.
6. By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
7. Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
8. Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.
9. Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
10. Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.
11. Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
12. Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
13. Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
14. Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.
15. I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
16. If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
17. Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
18. My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville,
19. Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
20. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
21. So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.
22. That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.
23. That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare,
24. That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
25. The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
26. The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked
27. The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.
28. There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.
29. Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
30. We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.
31. We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.
32. We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.
33. We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.
34. We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.
35. We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
36. We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.We need to stop spending money we don't have.
37. We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
38. We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.
39. What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
40. What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.
41. When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

Famous Quotes By Elbert Hubbard

 

1. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
2. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
3. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
4. A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
5. A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
6. Art is not a thing it is a way.
7. Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
8. Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
9. Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
10. Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
11. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
12. Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
13. Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
14. Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
15. Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
16. Fear clogs faith liberates.
17. Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
18. Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
19. God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
20. He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
21. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
22. If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
23. It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
24. It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
25. Life in abundance comes only through great love.
26. Life is just one damned thing after another.
27. Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
28. Live truth instead of professing it.
29. Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
30. Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
31. Men are only as great as they are kind.
32. Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
33. Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
34. Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
35. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
36. Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
37. Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
38. Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
39. Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
40. Responsibility is the price of freedom.
41. Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
42. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
43. The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
44. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
45. The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
46. The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
47. The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
48. The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
49. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
50. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
51. The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
52. The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
53. The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
54. The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
55. The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
56. The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
57. The thing we fear we bring to pass.
58. There is no failure except in no longer trying.
59. This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
60. We are punished by our sins, not for them.
61. We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
62. We work to become, not to acquire.

Famous Quotes By Marco Rubio

 

1. America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.
2. Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.
3. Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
4. Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
5. And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.
6. And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.
7. Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.
8. But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.
9. But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.
10. But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
11. For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
12. From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
13. Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
14. Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.
15. I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
16. I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
17. I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.
18. If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.
19. It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.
20. It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'
21. Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
22. Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
23. Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
24. Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.
25. Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.
26. My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'
27. No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
28. Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.
29. Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.
30. The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.
31. The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
32. There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
33. Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
34. Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.
35. We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
36. We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
37. We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.
38. We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
39. We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.
40. We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.
41. We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.
42. What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
43. With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.
44. You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.
45. You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.
46. You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
47. You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
48. You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

Famous Quotes By Ronald Reagan

 

1. A people free to choose will always choose peace.
2. Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
3. All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
4. All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
5. Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
6. Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
7. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
8. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
9. Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
10. Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
11. Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.
12. Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
13. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
14. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
15. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
16. History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
17. I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
18. I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
19. If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
20. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
21. If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.
22. Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
23. Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
24. It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
25. It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
26. It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
27. It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
28. It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
29. I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
30. Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.
31. Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
32. Man is not free unless government is limited.
33. My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
34. No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
35. No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
36. One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
37. One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
38. Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
39. Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
40. Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
41. Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
42. Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
43. Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
44. Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
45. The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
46. The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
47. The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
48. The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
49. There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
50. There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
51. Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
52. Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
53. Trust, but verify.
54. We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
55. We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
56. We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
57. We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
58. We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
59. We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
60. What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
61. While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
62. Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
63. Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
64. You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
65. You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

Famous Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

 

1. All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
2. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
3. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
4. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
5. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe,
6. Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
7. Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
8. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
9. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
10. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
11. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
12. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
13. I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
14. I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
15. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
16. I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
17. I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
18. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
19. I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
20. I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
21. If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
22. If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
23. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
24. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
25. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
26. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
27. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
28. It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
29. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
30. Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
31. Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
32. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
33. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
34. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
35. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
36. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
37. No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
38. No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
39. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
40. Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
41. Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
42. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
43. The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
44. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
45. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
46. The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
47. The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
48. The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
49. The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
50. The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
51. The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
52. The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
53. There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
54. These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
55. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
56. To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
57. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
58. Whatever you are, be a good one.
59. When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
60. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
61. When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
62. With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
63. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Famous Quotes By Blaise Pascal

 

1. All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
2. As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
3. Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
4. Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
5. Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
6. Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
7. Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
8. Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
9. Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.
10. Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
11. Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
12. Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
13. Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
14. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
15. He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
16. Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
17. I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
18. If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
19. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
20. If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
21. Imagination decides everything.
22. Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
23. In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
24. In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
25. It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
26. It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
27. It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
28. It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
29. Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
30. Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
31. Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
32. Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
33. Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
34. Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
35. Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
36. Men blaspheme what they do not know.
37. Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
38. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
39. Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
40. Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
41. Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
42. Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
43. Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
44. One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
45. Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
46. Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
47. Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
48. That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
49. The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
50. The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
51. The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
52. The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
53. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
54. The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
55. The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
56. The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
57. The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
58. The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
59. The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
60. There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
61. There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
62. There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
63. Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
64. To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
65. Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.
66. Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
67. Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
68. Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
69. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
70. We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
71. When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Famous Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

 

1. A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
2. A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
3. A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
4. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
5. All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
6. Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
7. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
8. Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
9. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
10. Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
11. Faith is spiritualized imagination.
12. Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
13. Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
14. God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
15. God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
16. God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
17. God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
18. Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
19. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
20. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
21. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
22. I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
23. I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
24. In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
25. In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
26. It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
27. It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
28. It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
29. Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
30. Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
31. Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
32. Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
33. Love is the river of life in the world.
34. Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
35. No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
36. Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
37. Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
38. Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
39. Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
40. Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
41. Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
42. The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
43. The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
44. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
45. The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
46. The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
47. The dog is the god of frolic.
48. The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
49. The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
50. The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
51. The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
52. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
53. The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
54. The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
55. The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
56. Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
57. There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
58. There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
59. To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
60. To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
61. We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
62. We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
63. We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
64. We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
65. We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
66. Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
67. What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
68. When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
69. Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
70. Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Famous Quotes By Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

1. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
2. A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
3. A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
4. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
5. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
6. At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
7. Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
8. Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
9. Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
10. Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
11. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
12. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilati
13. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
14. I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
15. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
16. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
17. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
18. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
19. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
20. If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
21. It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
22. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
23. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
24. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
25. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
26. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
27. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
28. One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
29. One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
30. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
31. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
32. Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
33. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
34. Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
35. Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
36. Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
37. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
38. That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
39. The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
40. The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
41. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
42. The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
43. The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
44. The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
45. The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
46. The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
47. The time is always right to do what is right.
48. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
49. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
50. There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
51. War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
52. We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
53. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
54. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
55. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
56. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
57. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
58. We must use time creatively.
59. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
60. Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.