Lao Tzu - Quotes
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. - Lao Tzu #quotes
William Shakespeare - Quotes
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. - William Shakespeare
Albert Einstein - Quotes
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. - Albert Einstein #quotes
Benjamin Franklin - Quotes
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. - Benjamin Franklin
Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. - Mahatma Gandhi
Abraham Lincoln - Quotes
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. - Abraham Lincoln
William Shakespeare - Quotes
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. - William Shakespeare
John Keats - Biography
Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his life, his reputation grew after his death, so that by the end of the 19th century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a significant influence on a diverse range of later poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.
The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats
Albert Einstein - Quotes
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. - Albert Einstein
Samuel Beckett - Quotes
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. - Samuel Beckett #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. - Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau - Quotes
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. - Henry David Thoreau
George Orwell - Quotes
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
John Ruskin - Quotes
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. - John Ruskin #quotes
Benjamin Disraeli - Quotes
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. - Benjamin Disraeli
Mark Twain - Quotes
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. - Mark Twain
Albert Einstein - Quotes
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein #quotes
Socrates - Quotes
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates
Aristotle - Quotes
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. - Aristotle
William Shakespeare - Quotes
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! - William Shakespeare
Francis Bacon - Quotes
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. - Francis Bacon
Henry David Thoreau - Quotes
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. - Henry David Thoreau
George Harrison - Quotes
You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want. - George Harrison
John Ruskin - Quotes
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. - John Ruskin #quotes
Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. - Mahatma Gandhi
Benjamin Franklin - Quotes
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. - Benjamin Franklin
William Shakespeare - Quotes
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. - William Shakespeare #quotes
George Orwell - Quotes
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. - George Orwell
Katharine Hepburn - Quotes
When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous. - Katharine Hepburn
Benjamin Franklin - Quotes
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. - Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain - Quotes
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. - Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln - Quotes
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln
Charles Dickens - Quotes
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Albert Einstein - Quotes
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein
William Shakespeare - Quotes
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. - William Shakespeare #quotes
Henry David Thoreau - Quotes
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. - Henry David Thoreau
Benjamin Franklin - Quotes
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. - Benjamin Franklin
Jackie Kennedy - Quotes
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy. - Jackie Kennedy #quotes
George Burns - Quotes
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. - George Burns
Voltaire - Quotes
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. - Voltaire #quotes
Abraham Lincoln - Quotes
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. - Abraham Lincoln
Charles Dickens - Quotes
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. - Charles Dickens #quotes
George Orwell - Quotes
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. - George Orwell
Meryl Streep - Quotes
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. - Meryl Streep #quotes
Albert Einstein - Quotes
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Albert Einstein #quotes
Aristotle - Quotes
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. - Aristotle
Mark Twain - Quotes
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. - Mark Twain
Rodney Dangerfield - Quotes
When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother. - Rodney Dangerfield
John Ruskin - Quotes
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. - John Ruskin
Aristotle - Quotes
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. - Aristotle #quotes
Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. - Mahatma Gandhi
William Shakespeare - Quotes
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above. - William Shakespeare #quotes
Henry David Thoreau - Quotes
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. - Henry David Thoreau
Benjamin Disraeli - Quotes
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. - Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin - Quotes
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. - Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain - Quotes
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. - Mark Twain
Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? - Mahatma Gandhi
Albert Einstein - Quotes
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein #quotes
Abraham Lincoln - Quotes
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln
Socrates - Quotes
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. - Socrates #quotes
Aristotle - Quotes
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. - Aristotle
Lao Tzu - Quotes
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. - Lao Tzu #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. - Jane Austen #quotes
Voltaire - Quotes
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. - Voltaire #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. - Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin - Quotes
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. - Benjamin Franklin
George Orwell - Quotes
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. - George Orwell
Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. - Mahatma Gandhi
Maya Angelou - Quotes
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. - Maya Angelou
Henry David Thoreau - Quotes
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. - Henry David Thoreau
John Ruskin - Quotes
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. - John Ruskin #quotes
Voltaire - Quotes
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. - Voltaire #quotes
Wallace Stevens - Quotes
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. - Wallace Stevens
Benjamin Franklin - Quotes
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin
Katharine Hepburn - Quotes
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate. - Katharine Hepburn
Henry David Thoreau - Quotes
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. - Henry David Thoreau
Benjamin Disraeli - Quotes
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli
Florence Nightingale - Biography
Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King's College London. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale
George Orwell - Quotes
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. - George Orwell
John Ruskin - Quotes
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. - John Ruskin #quotes
Samuel Beckett - Quotes
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. - Samuel Beckett
Meryl Streep - Quotes
I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. - Meryl Streep
Katharine Hepburn - Quotes
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. - Katharine Hepburn #quotes
Lao Tzu - Quotes
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. - Lao Tzu #quotes
Benjamin Disraeli - Quotes
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are. - Benjamin Disraeli
Alan Bennett - Quotes
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. - Alan Bennett
George Orwell - Quotes
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell
William Shakespeare - Quotes
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. - William Shakespeare
Aristotle - Quotes
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. - Aristotle #quotes
Plato - Quotes
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. - Plato #quotes
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