Alan Bennett Quotes
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. - Alan Bennett
George Carlin Quotes
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. - George Carlin
Michael J. Fox Quotes
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. - Michael J. Fox
George Berkeley Quotes
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. - George Berkeley
John Adams Quotes
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Adams
William Shakespeare Quotes
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. - William Shakespeare
Victor Hugo Quotes
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. - Victor Hugo
Alexander Pope Quotes
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. - Alexander Pope
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. - Abraham Lincoln
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. - Henry David Thoreau
Oscar Wilde Quotes
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. - Oscar Wilde
Victor Hugo Quotes
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo
Wallace Stevens Quotes
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. - Wallace Stevens
Mark Twain Quotes
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain
George Berkeley Quotes
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. - George Berkeley
Alan Bennett Quotes
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. - Alan Bennett
Wallace Stevens Quotes
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. - Wallace Stevens
George Berkeley Quotes
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. - George Berkeley
Meryl Streep Quotes
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. - Meryl Streep
Victor Hugo Quotes
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. - Victor Hugo
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Albert Einstein Quotes
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. - Benjamin Disraeli
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. - Alfred Hitchcock
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
If misery loves company, misery has company enough. - Henry David Thoreau
Alexander Pope Quotes
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. - Alexander Pope
John Ruskin Quotes
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. - John Ruskin
Napoleon Hill Quotes
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. - Napoleon Hill
Oscar Wilde Quotes
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. - Oscar Wilde
James F. Cooper Quotes
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. - James F. Cooper
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. - Abraham Lincoln
H. G. Wells Quotes
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. - H. G. Wells
William Wordsworth Biography
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| Portrait of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon |
Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland — part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District. His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was Master, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Their father was a legal representative of James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale and, through his connections, lived in a large mansion in the small town. Wordsworth, as with his siblings, had little involvement with their father, and they would be distant from him until his death in 1783.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth
Francis Bacon Quotes
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. - Francis Bacon
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi
William Shakespeare Quotes
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. - William Shakespeare
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold. - Henry David Thoreau
Buddha Quotes
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha
Plato Quotes
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. - Plato
Albert Schweitzer Biography
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| Albert Schweitzer |
Schweitzer's passionate quest was to discover a universal ethical philosophy, anchored in a universal reality, and make it directly available to all of humanity.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Socrates Quotes
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. - Socrates
Francis Bacon Quotes
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Francis Bacon
Mother Teresa Quotes
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. - Mother Teresa
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? - Henry David Thoreau
Napoleon Hill Quotes
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. - Napoleon Hill
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. - Alfred Hitchcock
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. - Abraham Lincoln
John Adams Quotes
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. - John Adams
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. - Mahatma Gandhi
Mark Twain Quotes
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. - Mark Twain
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. - Albert Schweitzer
Mortimer Adler Quotes
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. - Mortimer Adler
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. - Henry David Thoreau
John Adams Quotes
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. - John Adams
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