In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. - George Orwell
George Orwell Quotes
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. - Abraham Lincoln
Harold Wilson Quotes
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. - Harold Wilson
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us. - Henry David Thoreau
Carl Jung Quotes
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. - Carl Jung
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. - Henry David Thoreau
Jane Austen Quotes
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! - Jane Austen
George Orwell Quotes
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. - George Orwell
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. - Benjamin Franklin
Bud Abbott Quotes
That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody. - Bud Abbott
William Shakespeare Quotes
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. - William Shakespeare
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller
Mark Twain Quotes
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. - Mark Twain
Alexander Pope Quotes
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. - Alexander Pope
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. - Friedrich Nietzsche
T.S. Eliot Quotes
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. - T.S. Eliot
William Feather Quotes
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job. - William Feather
Albert Einstein Quotes
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. - Rudyard Kipling
Buddha Quotes
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Buddha
Oscar Wilde Quotes
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. - Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. - Friedrich Nietzsche
John Wooden Quotes
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. - John Wooden
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet. - Benjamin Disraeli
H. G. Wells Quotes
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. - H. G. Wells
William Shakespeare Quotes
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. - William Shakespeare
Thomas Merton Quotes
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. - Thomas Merton
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Mother Teresa Quotes
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. - Mother Teresa
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli
Zig Ziglar Quotes
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. - Zig Ziglar
John Ruskin Quotes
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. - John Ruskin
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. - Benjamin Disraeli
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. - Mahatma Gandhi
Simone Weil Quotes
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. - Simone Weil
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Abraham Lincoln
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way. - Henry David Thoreau
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. - Benjamin Disraeli
William Feather Quotes
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke. - William Feather
George Carlin Quotes
I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work. - George Carlin
Thomas Merton Quotes
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. - Thomas Merton
Plato Quotes
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. - Plato
Victor Hugo Quotes
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. - Victor Hugo
James F. Cooper Quotes
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. - James F. Cooper
George Burns Quotes
You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made. - George Burns
Mae West Quotes
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. - Mae West
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Francis Bacon Quotes
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon
Denis Waitley Quotes
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. - Denis Waitley
Voltaire Quotes
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. - Voltaire
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