There are no gains without pains \u2013\u00a0Adlai Stevenson<\/b><\/p>\n
The soul of a murderer is blind \u2013\u00a0Albert Camus<\/b><\/p>\n
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land \u2013\u00a0Aldo Leopold<\/b><\/p>\n
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that\u2019s your own self \u2013\u00a0Aldous Huxley<\/b><\/p>\n
A little learning is a dangerous thing \u2013\u00a0Alexander Pope<\/b><\/p>\n
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation \u2013\u00a0Alexander Solzhenitsyn<\/b><\/p>\n
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones \u2013\u00a0Alexander Solzhenitsyn<\/b><\/p>\n
United we stand, divided we fall \u2013\u00a0Aesop<\/b><\/p>\n
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted \u2013\u00a0Aesop<\/b><\/p>\n
It is easier to fight for one\u2019s principles than to live up to them \u2013\u00a0Alfred Adler<\/b><\/p>\n
War is not an adventure. It is a disease \u2013\u00a0Antoine De Saint-Exupery<\/b><\/p>\n
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties \u2013\u00a0Arthur Schopenhauer<\/b><\/p>\n
Justice is truth in action \u2013\u00a0Benjamin Disraeli<\/b><\/p>\n
There are three kinds of lies \u2013 lies, damned lies and statistics \u2013\u00a0Benjamin Disraeli<\/b><\/p>\n
No nation was ever ruined by trade \u2013\u00a0Benjamin Franklin<\/b><\/p>\n
Success has ruined many a man \u2013\u00a0Benjamin Franklin<\/b><\/p>\n
Time is money \u2013\u00a0Benjamin Franklin<\/b><\/p>\n
There never was a good war or a bad peace \u2013\u00a0Benjamin Franklin<\/b><\/p>\n
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise \u2013\u00a0Benjamin Franklin<\/b><\/p>\n
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him \u2013\u00a0Benjamin Franklin<\/b><\/p>\n
A single man is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors \u2013\u00a0Benjamin Franklin<\/b><\/p>\n
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise \u2013\u00a0Cervantes<\/b><\/p>\n
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists \u2013\u00a0Don Marquis<\/b><\/p>\n
An optimist is a guy that never has had much experience \u2013\u00a0Don Marquis<\/b><\/p>\n
Laws were made to be broken \u2013\u00a0Christopher North<\/b><\/p>\n
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services \u2013\u00a0Daniel J Boorstin<\/b><\/p>\n
Childhood is the kingdom where no one dies \u2013\u00a0Edna St. Vincent Millay<\/b><\/p>\n
Love means never having to say you\u2019re sorry \u2013\u00a0Erich Segal<\/b><\/p>\n
The first requisite to happiness is to be born in a famous city \u2013\u00a0Euripides<\/b><\/p>\n
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself \u2013\u00a0Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/b><\/p>\n
The physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force \u2013\u00a0Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/b><\/p>\n
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth \u2013\u00a0Friedrich Nietzsche<\/b><\/p>\n
Hell is full of musical amateurs \u2013\u00a0George Bernard Shaw<\/b><\/p>\n
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship \u2013\u00a0George Bernard Shaw<\/b><\/p>\n
My way of joking is to tell the truth \u2013\u00a0George Bernard Shaw<\/b><\/p>\n
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing \u2013\u00a0George Bernard Shaw<\/b><\/p>\n
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature \u2013\u00a0George De Nerval<\/b><\/p>\n
The happiest woman, like the happiest nations, has no history \u2013\u00a0George Eliot<\/b><\/p>\n
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others \u2013\u00a0George Orwell<\/b><\/p>\n
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy \u2013\u00a0George Santayana<\/b><\/p>\n
Our dignity is not in what we do but what we understand. The whole world is doing things \u2013\u00a0George Santayana<\/b><\/p>\n
A rose is a rose is a rose \u2013\u00a0Gertrude Stein<\/b><\/p>\n
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother \u2013\u00a0Germaine Greer<\/b><\/p>\n
A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized \u2013\u00a0Girish Karnad<\/b><\/p>\n
I call architecture frozen music \u2013\u00a0Goethe<\/b><\/p>\n
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it \u2013\u00a0Golda Meir<\/b><\/p>\n
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author \u2013\u00a0G K Chesterton<\/b><\/p>\n
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly \u2013\u00a0G K Chesterton<\/b><\/p>\n
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist; in the same way a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier \u2013\u00a0Gustave Flaubert<\/b><\/p>\n
If you can\u2019t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen \u2013\u00a0Harry S Truman<\/b><\/p>\n
The customer is always right \u2013\u00a0H Gordon Selfridge<\/b><\/p>\n
Art is a jealous mistress \u2013\u00a0Henry James<\/b><\/p>\n
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes \u2013\u00a0Henry J Kaiser<\/b><\/p>\n
Music is the universal language of mankind \u2013 poetry their universal pastime and delight \u2013\u00a0Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/b><\/p>\n
You can\u2019t step twice into the same river \u2013\u00a0Heraclitus<\/b><\/p>\n
Education has for its object the formation of character \u2013\u00a0Herbert Spencer<\/b><\/p>\n
Who has self-confidence will lead the rest \u2013\u00a0Horace<\/b><\/p>\n
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way \u2013\u00a0Issac Goldberg<\/b><\/p>\n
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself \u2013\u00a0Jawaharlal Nehru<\/b><\/p>\n
What is history, indeed, but a record of change? \u2013\u00a0Jawaharlal Nehru<\/b><\/p>\n
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere \u2013\u00a0Jawaharlal Nehru<\/b><\/p>\n
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is \u2013\u00a0Jean Anouilh<\/b><\/p>\n
Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains \u2013\u00a0Jean Jacques Rousseau<\/b><\/p>\n
Once you hear the details of a victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat \u2013\u00a0Jean Paul Sartre<\/b><\/p>\n
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate \u2013\u00a0John F Kennedy<\/b><\/p>\n
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity \u2013\u00a0John F Kennedy<\/b><\/p>\n
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness \u2013\u00a0John Keats<\/b><\/p>\n
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance \u2013\u00a0John Ruskin<\/b><\/p>\n
There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather \u2013\u00a0John Ruskin<\/b><\/p>\n
All good things which exist are the fruit of originality \u2013\u00a0John Stuart Mill<\/b><\/p>\n
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness \u2013\u00a0John Wesley<\/b><\/p>\n
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another \u2013\u00a0Jonathan Swift<\/b><\/p>\n
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible \u2013\u00a0Jonathan Swift<\/b><\/p>\n
To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection \u2013\u00a0JRD Tata<\/b><\/p>\n
From each according to his abilities, and to each according to his needs \u2013\u00a0Karl Marx<\/b><\/p>\n
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him \u2013\u00a0King Baudouin I<\/b><\/p>\n
What is food to one is to another bitter poison \u2013\u00a0Lucretius<\/b><\/p>\n
I generally avoid temptation unless I can\u2019t resist it \u2013\u00a0Mae West<\/b><\/p>\n
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder \u2013\u00a0Margaret Hungerford<\/b><\/p>\n
Dance is the hidden language of the soul \u2013\u00a0Martha Graham<\/b><\/p>\n
Marriage, to tell the truth, is an evil, but it is a necessary evil \u2013\u00a0Menander<\/b><\/p>\n
It (marriage) is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out \u2013\u00a0Montaigne<\/b><\/p>\n
Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ \u2013\u00a0Moliere<\/b><\/p>\n
Things are only worth what you make them worth \u2013\u00a0Moliere<\/b><\/p>\n
I prefer an understanding vice to an obstinate virtue \u2013\u00a0Moliere<\/b><\/p>\n
My diaries have always been my friends. The written word is so much more constant than human beings. Honest, too \u2013\u00a0Mrinal Pande<\/b><\/p>\n
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield \u2013\u00a0Muriel Spark<\/b><\/p>\n
A leader is a dealer in hope \u2013\u00a0Napoleon Bonaparte<\/b><\/p>\n
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements \u2013\u00a0Norman Douglas<\/b>p><\/p>\n
The first blow is half the battle \u2013\u00a0Oliver Goldsmith<\/b><\/p>\n
I love everything that\u2019s old: old times, old manners, old books, old wines \u2013\u00a0Oliver Goldsmith<\/b><\/p>\n
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well-written, or badly written \u2013\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/b><\/p>\n
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies \u2013\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/b><\/p>\n
If the nose of the Cleopatra had been a little shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed \u2013\u00a0Pascal<\/b><\/p>\n
If winter comes, can spring be far behind? \u2013\u00a0Shelley<\/b><\/p>\n
The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom \u2013\u00a0Shelley<\/b><\/p>\n
No one is wise at all times \u2013\u00a0Pliny The Elder<\/b><\/p>\n
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable \u2013\u00a0Plato<\/b><\/p>\n
I leave no trace of wings in the air but I am glad I had my flight \u2013\u00a0Rabindranath Tagore<\/b><\/p>\n
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm \u2013\u00a0Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/b><\/p>\n
Every hero becomes a bore at last \u2013\u00a0Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/b><\/p>\n
A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women \u2013\u00a0Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/b><\/p>\n
Reading all the good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries \u2013\u00a0Rene Descartes<\/b><\/p>\n
Reading is to mind what exercise is to the body \u2013\u00a0Richard Steele<\/b><\/p>\n
To travel hopefully is better than to arrive \u2013\u00a0R L Stevenson<\/b><\/p>\n
He travels fastest who travels alone \u2013\u00a0Rudyard Kipling<\/b><\/p>\n
We are all born mad. Some remain so \u2013\u00a0Samuel Beckett<\/b><\/p>\n
No man but a block head ever wrote, except for money \u2013\u00a0Samuel Johnson<\/b><\/p>\n
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once \u2013\u00a0Shakespeare<\/b><\/p>\n
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown \u2013\u00a0Shakespeare<\/b><\/p>\n
Neither a borrower nor a lender be \u2013\u00a0Shakespeare<\/b><\/p>\n
Sweet are the uses of adversity \u2013\u00a0Shakespeare<\/b><\/p>\n
Brevity is the soul of wit \u2013\u00a0Shakespeare<\/b><\/p>\n
The devil can cite Scripture for its purpose \u2013\u00a0Shakespeare<\/b><\/p>\n
The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see \u2013\u00a0Shankaracharya<\/b><\/p>\n
One is not born a woman, one becomes one \u2013\u00a0Simone De Beauvoir<\/b><\/p>\n
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country \u2013\u00a0Sir Henry Wotton<\/b><\/p>\n
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell \u2013\u00a0Sir Walter A Raleigh<\/b><\/p>\n
On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind \u2013\u00a0Sir William Hamilton<\/b><\/p>\n
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love \u2013\u00a0Sophocles<\/b><\/p>\n
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself \u2013\u00a0Susan B Anthony<\/b><\/p>\n
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far \u2013\u00a0Theodore Roosevelt<\/b><\/p>\n
There is no substitute for hard work \u2013\u00a0Thomas Alva Edison<\/b><\/p>\n
The history of the world is but the biography of great men \u2013\u00a0Thomas Carlyle<\/b><\/p>\n
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind \u2013\u00a0Thomas Carlyle<\/b><\/p>\n
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good \u2013\u00a0Thomas Paine<\/b><\/p>\n
It is much safer to obey than to rule \u2013\u00a0Thomas A Kempis<\/b><\/p>\n
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth \u2013\u00a0Thoreau<\/b><\/p>\n
To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it! \u2013\u00a0Tiberius<\/b><\/p>\n
Youth, even in its sorrows, has a brilliance of its own \u2013\u00a0Victor Hugo<\/b><\/p>\n
No hero is mortal till he dies \u2013\u00a0W H Auden<\/b><\/p>\n
Everything is funny as long as it happens to somebody else \u2013\u00a0Will Rogers<\/b><\/p>\n
Rumor travels faster, but it won\u2019t stay put as long as truth \u2013\u00a0Will Rogers<\/b><\/p>\n
Variety is the very spice of life. That gives it all its flavour \u2013\u00a0William Cowper<\/b><\/p>\n
If you think you can win, you can win \u2013\u00a0William Hazlitt<\/b><\/p>\n
Women never reason and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong \u2013\u00a0William Hazlitt<\/b><\/p>\n
Be nice to people on your way up because you will need them on your way down \u2013\u00a0Wilson Mizner<\/b><\/p>\n
If you steal from one author, it is plagiarism; if you steal from many, it is research \u2013\u00a0Wilson Mizner<\/b><\/p>\n
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world \u2013\u00a0W R Wallace<\/b><\/p>\n
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise \u2013\u00a0W Somerset Maugham<\/b><\/p>\n
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different are not less than the pleasures of youth \u2013\u00a0Somerset Maugham<\/b><\/p>\n
Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time \u2013\u00a0Winston Churchill<\/b><\/p>\n
It is love that makes the world go round \u2013\u00a0W S Gilbert<\/b><\/p>\nAnonymous quotations<\/h3>\n
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.<\/p>\n
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.<\/p>\n
Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.<\/p>\n
The road to ruin is always kept in good repair.<\/p>\n
Doctors bury their mistakes, lawyers hang them. Journalists put theirs on the front page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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