Alan Bennett - Quotes
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. - Alan Bennett #quotes
Wallace Stevens - Quotes
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. - Wallace Stevens #quotes
Abraham Lincoln - Quotes
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. - Abraham Lincoln
Plato - Quotes
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. - Plato #quotes
Jean de La Fontaine - Quotes
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. - Jean de La Fontaine #quotes
William Shakespeare - Quotes
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. - William Shakespeare
Henry David Thoreau - Quotes
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. - Henry David Thoreau
Voltaire - Quotes
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. - Voltaire #quotes
John Ruskin - Quotes
Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. - John Ruskin
Meryl Streep - Quotes
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. - Meryl Streep #quotes
Lao Tzu - Quotes
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. - Lao Tzu #quotes
Abraham Lincoln - Quotes
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
George Burns - Quotes
The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - George Burns
Voltaire - Quotes
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. - Voltaire #quotes
Jackie Kennedy - Quotes
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. - Jackie Kennedy #quotes
Henry David Thoreau - Quotes
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau
Jane Austen - Quotes
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. - Jane Austen #quotes
Katharine Hepburn - Quotes
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. - Katharine Hepburn
Socrates - Quotes
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. - Socrates #quotes
Aristotle - Quotes
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. - Aristotle #quotes
Lao Tzu - Quotes
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. - Lao Tzu #quotes
Benjamin Franklin - Quotes
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln - Quotes
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln
Jane Austen - Quotes
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. - Jane Austen
Benjamin Disraeli - Quotes
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli
Mark Twain - Quotes
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. - Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin - Quotes
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. - Benjamin Franklin
Plato - Quotes
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. - Plato #quotes
Abraham Lincoln - Quotes
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. - Abraham Lincoln
Voltaire - Quotes
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. - Voltaire #quotes
Abraham Lincoln - Quotes
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. - Abraham Lincoln
Katharine Hepburn - Quotes
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. - Katharine Hepburn #quotes
Aristotle - Quotes
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. - Aristotle
Benjamin Disraeli - Quotes
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. - Benjamin Disraeli
Aristotle - Quotes
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle #quotes
John Ruskin - Quotes
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. - John Ruskin #quotes
Meryl Streep - Quotes
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. - Meryl Streep
Socrates - Quotes
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates
Rodney Dangerfield - Quotes
My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met. - Rodney Dangerfield
William Shakespeare - Quotes
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. - William Shakespeare
Mohandas Gandhi - Biography
Gandhi is commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi ("Great Soul", an honourific that was being applied to him by the time he left South Africa for India in 1914 and in India also as Bapu ("Father"). He is known in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Non-Violence.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi
Mark Twain - Quotes
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. - Mark Twain #quotes
John Ruskin - Quotes
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. - John Ruskin #quotes
Marilyn Monroe - Quotes
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. - Marilyn Monroe
Charles Dickens - Quotes
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Rodney Dangerfield - Quotes
My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home. - Rodney Dangerfield
Lao Tzu - Quotes
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. - Lao Tzu #quotes
Aristotle - Quotes
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. - Aristotle #quotes
John Ruskin - Quotes
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. - John Ruskin #quotes
Aristotle - Quotes
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. - Aristotle #quotes
Katharine Hepburn - Quotes
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. - Katharine Hepburn #quotes
Plato - Quotes
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. - Plato #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. - Jane Austen
Maya Angelou - Quotes
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. - Maya Angelou
Aristotle - Quotes
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. - Aristotle #quotes
Roald Dahl - Quotes
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. - Roald Dahl
Michael J. Fox - Quotes
I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face. - Michael J. Fox #quotes
Albert Einstein - Quotes
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. - Albert Einstein
Jackie Kennedy - Quotes
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. - Jackie Kennedy #quotes
Nelson Mandela - Quotes
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. - Nelson Mandela #quotes
Thomas Jefferson - Quotes
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. - Thomas Jefferson
Rodney Dangerfield - Quotes
I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot. - Rodney Dangerfield
Katharine Hepburn - Quotes
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. - Katharine Hepburn #quotes
Meryl Streep - Quotes
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. - Meryl Streep
Bruce Lee - Quotes
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. - Bruce Lee
Wallace Stevens - Quotes
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. - Wallace Stevens #quotes
Maya Angelou - Quotes
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. - Maya Angelou
Lao Tzu - Quotes
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. - Lao Tzu #quotes
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