QUOTES
Socrates

Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death.

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world.

Bad men live to eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink in order to live.

Plato
Socartes is guilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing in deities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the states.

There will be no end to the troubles of the states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal.

Plato is dear to me, dearer still is truth.

Abraham Lincoln
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.

Alexander The Great
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

Lord Acton (1834-1902)
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great men are almost always bad men.

Anonymous
Thirty days hath September, April, June and November.All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, and that has twenty-eight days clear and twenty-nine in each leap year

Times change, and we change with them.

Appius Caecus(4 B.C)
Each man the architect of his own fate.

Archimedus(287-212)
Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.

Mathhew Arnold(1822-1888)
And we forget beacuase we must and not because we will.

The Pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

W.H.Auden(1907-
A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.

Jane Austen(1775-1817)
My sore throats are always worse than anyone’s.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Francis Bacon(1561-1626)
If a man begin with certainities, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainities.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

All colours will agree in the dark.

Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses.

There are some other that account wife and children but as bills of charges.

Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign or state;servants of fame; and servants of business.

It is a strange desire to seek power and lose liberty.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

In Charity there is no excess.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

The four pillars of government…Religion,justice,counsel and treasure.

Money is like muck, not goodexcept it be spread.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but deep in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.

Travel, in the younger sort, is part of educationl; in the elder, a part of experience.

To choose time is to save time.

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Read not to contadict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he can find.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Otto Von Bismark(1815-1898)
Politics no excat science

William Blake(1757-1827)
A truth that is told with a bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s
I will not reason and compare; my business is to create.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care
I whethere he is wise man or a fool. Go!put off holiness,
And put on intellect.

Mock on, Mock on; its all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind
And the wind blows it back again.

He who desires nad acts not breeds pestilence.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

Henry St John, Viscount BolingBroke(1678-1751)
Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Sir H.E.Boulton(1859-1935)
The night has thousand eyes
And the day but one
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

Lord Bowen(1835-1894)
On a Metaphysician: A blind man in a dark room, looking for a black hat-
Which is not there.

W.L.Bowles(1762-1850)
The cause of freedom is the cuase of God!

F.H.Bradley(1846-1924)
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find the reasons is no less an instinct.

His mind is open; yes, it is so open that nothing is retained; ideas simply pass through him.

John Bright(1811-1889)
The knowledge of the ancient language is mainly a luxury

Anthelme Brilatsavarin(1755-1826)
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are

Lord Brougham(1778-1868)
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

T.E.Brown(1830-1897)
A rich man’s joke is always funny.

All things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.

To believe only in possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806-1861)
Since when was genius found respectable ?

If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love’s sake only.

God’s gift put man’s best gifts to shame.

Robert Browning(1812-1889)
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp.

All we have gained then by our unbelief
Is a life of doubt diversified by faith
For one of faith diversified by doubt
We called the chess-board white, - we call it black.

No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man’s worth something.

And the muttering grew to a grumbling
And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;
And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.

There is new tribunal now
Higher than God’s-the educated man’s!

It is the glory and the good art
That art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth, to the minds at least

Leave the flesh to the fate it was fit for! he spirit be thine!

She looked at him, as one whop awakes:
The past was a sleep, and her life began

The world and its ways have a certain worth.
There may be heaven; here must be hell;
Meantime, there is our earth here well!

R.W.Buchanan(1841-1901)

She just wore
Enough modesty – no more

George Villiers, Second duke of Buckingham(1628-1687)
The world is made up for the most part of fools and knaves.

Buddha
This Ariyan Eightfold path, that is to say:
Right :
view, aim, speech, action, living, effort, Mindfulness, contemplation.

George-Louis De Buffon(1707-1788)
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

Arthur Buller(1874-1944)
There was a young lady named bright
Whose speed was far faster than light
She set out one day
In a elative way
And returned home the previous night.

Edmund Burke(1729-1797)
I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper
Government.

The concessions of the weak are the concession of fear.

The use of force alone is but temporary.It may subdue for a moment;
But it does not remove the necessity of subduing again:
And a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

All government , indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in any soil.

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet ruinous in practice; athing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all the law, the law of our creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature, and of nations.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public
to be the most anxious for its welfare.

No passion effectualy robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning
as fear.


Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their
Importunate chink… do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only
Inhabitants of the field.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

A perfect democracy is therefore a shameless thing in the world.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill.
Our antagonist is our helper.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

You can never plan the future by the past.

To innovate is to reform.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us , we are poor indeed.

Robert Burton (1577-1640)
They lard their lean books with the fat of other’s works.

One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.

If there is hell upon earth, it is to be found in the melancholy man’s heart.

Who cannot give good counsel? ‘Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.

One religion is as true as another.

Nicholas Murray Butler(1862-1947)
A expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Besides ‘tis known he could speak greek,
As naturally as a pig squeak.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

The souls of women are so small,
That some believe they’ve none at all.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
An art can be only be learned in the workshop of those who are winning their
Bread by it.

I keep my books in the British Museum and at Mudie’s

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond it’s income.

An apology for the Devil – it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

To live is to love – all reasons is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

God is love – I dare say. But what a mischievous devil love is.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that, it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow.So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious; we call it hypocrisy.

There’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.


John Byrom (1692-1763)
I shall prove it – as clear as whistle.

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 –1824)
What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life’s page
And be alone on earth, as I am now.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and the music in it’s roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.

She for him had given
Her all on earth and more than all in heaven

Explaining Metaphysics to yhe nation-
I wish he would explain his explantion
(of Coleridge)

Sweet is revenge – especially to women

Pleasure’s a sin and sometimes sin’s a pleasure

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk
The best of life is but intoxication

Ala! The love of women! It is known
To be lovely and fearful thing

All tragedies are finished by death
All comedies are ended by a marriage

Milton’s the prince of poets – so we say
A little heavy, but no less divine

To think such breasts must suckle slaves

Dudu said nothing, as
Her talent were of the more silent class

A lady of a ‘certain age’ which means
Certainly aged

He said
Little, but to the purpose

And, after all, what is lie? ‘Tis but
The truth in masquerade

Society is now one polished horde
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe
Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast
Is that portentous phrase, ‘I told you so’

‘tis strange – but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

I’ll publish, right or wrong:
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste

Dear Doctor, I have read your play,
Which is a good one it own way, -
Purges the eyes and moves the bowels.
And drenches handkerchiefs like towels

Though women are angels, yet wedlock’s the devil

I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse – borne away with every breath!

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love,
but love never subsides into friendship.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

For man’s greatest crime is to have been born

C..S.Calverley(1831-1884)
And this song is considered a perfect gem,
And as to the meaning , it’s what you please

O Beer! O Hodgson, Guiness, Allsop, Bass!
Names that should be on every infant’s tongue!

He that would shine, and petrify this tutor,
Should drink draught Allsop in its
‘native pewter’

Henry Carey(1693?-1743)
Of all the days that’s in the week
I dearly love but one day –
And that’s the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday

Jane Welsh Carlyle(1801-1866)
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller
As a favour

Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881)
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Silence is deep as eternity; Speech is shallow as Time

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but
the biography of great men.

Burke said that there were three estates in parliament; but, in the
Reporters Gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate, amore important
far than all.

Blessed is he who has found his work;
Let him ask no other blessedness.

Man is a tool-using animal … witjout tools
He is nothing, with tools he is all.

Be not the slave of words.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil.

The public is an old women. Let her maunder and mumble.

If jesus Christ were to come to-day,
People wouldn’t even crucify him.They would
Aski him ti dinner, and hear what he had to say,
And make fun of it.

Julia Carney(1823-1908)
Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity.

Lewis Carroll [Charles Dodgson](1832-1898)
‘If everybody minded their own business,’
the duchess said in a hoarse growl, ‘the world
would go round a deal fater than it does’

Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.

“That’s the reason they’re called lessons,’
the Gryphon remarked: ‘ because they lessen from day to day’

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place.
If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

‘it’s very rude of him,’ she said to come and spoil the fun

Catullus (87-54? B.C)
There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.

Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914)
An old Spanish saying is that ‘a kiss without a moustache is like an egg without
Salt’

Miguel Cervantes ( 1547-1616)
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men’s thoughts, the food that cures all hunger .. the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.

An honest women and a broken leg are best at home, and for an honest girl a job of work’s her holiday.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

All the physicians and authors in the world could not give a clear account of his madness.
He is mad in patches, full of lucid intervals.

There are only two families in this world, my old grandmother used to say,
The haves and the have-nots.

‘If I had a water thirst’, replied Sancho, ‘there are wells on the road where I could have quenched it’

Nicholas ChamFort (1741-1794)
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not lasted.

Charles I (1600-1649)
Never make a defence of apology before you be accused.

Francois-Rene De ChateauBriand (1768-1848)
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Earl of ChesterField (1694-1773)
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Take the tone of the company you are in.

Idleness is only the refugee of weak minds.

A man of sense only trifles with them [women], plays with them, humourous and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trust them with, serious matters.

Women are much more like each other men: they have, in truth, but two passions,
Vanity and love: these are their universal characteristics.

Lord Randolph Churchill ( 1849-1894)
I never could make out what those damn dots meant.(Of the decimal point)

Winston Churchill (1874-)
The maxim of the Briish people is
“Business as usual”

This is not the end. It is not even th begging of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of beginning.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
Nothing so absurd can be said, that some philosopher has not said.

I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men
Like these([the Pythagoreas])

John Clare (1793-1864)
If the life had a second edition, how I would correct the proof

Henry Clay (1777-1852)
I had rather be right than be President.

Arthur Hugh Clough ( 1819-1861)
‘Tis better to have fought and lost .
Than never to have fought at all.

S.t.Coleridge (1772-1834)
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could; they have tried their talents at one or at the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

My mind is in a great philosophical doubt.

I believe the souls of five thousand Sir Issac Newton would go to the making up of a Shakespeare or a Milton.

Mortimer Collins (1827 –1876 )
A man is as old as he’s feeling
A woman as old she looks.

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
I am not aginst hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is famed by an adequate
Income.

Charles Colton ( 1780? – 1832)
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; anything but – live for it.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.


William Congreve (1670-1729)
Thou liar of the first magnitude

I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.

Pierre Corneille ( 1606 –1 684)
One often calms one’s grief by recounting.

Anne Bigot De Cornuel ( 1605 – 1694 )
No man is a hero to his valet.

Emile Coue (1857-1926)
Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.

Abraham Cowley (1618 –1667)
The world’s a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

Hannah Cowley ( 1743 – 1809)
But what is woman? – one of Nature’s agreeable blunders.

William Cowper (1731-1800)
He found it inconvenient to be poor.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to do watch the sick,
Whom, snoring, she disturbs.

Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

Variety’s the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.

In indolent vacuity of thoughts.
Nature is but a name for an effect,
Whose cause is God.

George Crabbe (1754-1832)
He tried the luxury of doing good

‘The game’ said he, ‘is never lost till won.’

Mrs Edmund Craster (?-1874)
The centipede was happy quite
Until the toad in fun
Said ‘Pray which leg goes after which?’
And worked her mind to such a pitch,
She lay distracted in the ditch
Considering how to run

Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658)
A few honest men are better than numbers.

Bishop Richard CumberLand (1631-1718)
It is better to wear out than to rust out,

Will Cuppy (1884-1949)
The Dodo never had a cjance.He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

Charles A.Dana (1819-1897)
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

Marquise Du Deffand (1697-1780)
The distance does not matter; it is only the first step that is difficult.

Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731)
All men woulsd be tyrants if they could.

Abbe Jacques Delille (1738-1813)
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.

Nigel Dennis (1912 -)
But then one is always excited by description of money changing hands.It’s much more fundamental than sex.

Edward, Earl of Derby (1799 –1869)
A great Whig authority used always to say that the duty of an Opposition is very simple – it was, to oppose everything, and propose nothing.

Rene Descartes (1596 –1650)
Common sense is the most widely distributed commodity in the world, for everyone thinks himself so well endowed with it that those who are hardest to please in any other respect generally have no desire to possess more of it than they have.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with finest men of past centuries.

Travelling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.

I think, therefore I am.

Eustache Deschamps (1345-1406)
Who will bell the cat ?

Philippe Destouches (1680 –1754)
The absent are always in the wrong

Charles Dickens ( 1812 – 1870)
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

‘In case anything turned up’,which was his favourite expression.

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Now, what I want is Facts ….. Facts alone are wanted in life.

Once a gentlemn , and always a gentleman.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed.There an’t much credit in that.

There might be some credit in being jolly.

With affection being in one eye, and calculation out of the other.

Here’s the rule for bargain: ‘Do other men, for they would do you.’ That’s the true business precept.Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Tonque; well, that’s wery good thing when it an’t a woman’s.

Eccentricities of genius.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus ( 40 – 8 B.C.)
History is philosophy drawn from examples.

Benjamin Disraeli ( 1804 –1881)
Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Finality is not the language of politics.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learining.

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Youth is blunder; Manhood a struggle;

Time is the great physician.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Every man should marry – and no woman.

Little things affect little minds.

I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two nations.

If a traveler were informed that such a man [Lord Russell] was the leader of the House of Commans, he may well begin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshipped an insect.

Charles Fletcher Dole ( 1645 –1927)
Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.

John Donne ( 1571?-1631)
No spring, no summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.

By our first strange and fatal interview.

No man is an Island, entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.

Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset ( 1536-1608)
So, in this way of writing without thinking,
Though has a strange alacrity in sinking.

Fedor Dostoyevsky (1821 – 1881)
I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness

Sarah Doundney (1843-1926)
But the waiting time, my brothers
Is the hardest time of all.

Lorenzo Dow (1777 –1 834)
You will be damned if you do – And you will be damned if you don’t.

Sir Arthur Connan Doyle ( 1859 – 1930)
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

‘Excellent!’ I cried, ‘Elementary,’ sad he.

‘Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention ?’
‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time’.
‘The dog did nothing in the night time’.
‘That was the curious incident,’ replied Shelock Holmes.

John Dryden ( 1631-1700)
Beware the fury of a patient man.

Nor is the people’s judgement always true;
The most may err as grossly as the few.

She feared no danger for she knew no sin.

All human things are subject to decay,
And When fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Joachim Du Bellay (1515-1560)
Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has mad a fine voyage.

Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870)
All for one, one for all.

Alexandre Dumas fils( a824 –1895)
All generalization are dangerous, even this one.

Maria Edgeworth ( 1767- 1849)
Business was his pleasure; pleasure was his business.

George Eliot [Mary Ann Cross ] (1819-1880)
It’s them that take advantage that get advantage I’ this world

He was like a cock who taught the sun had risen to hear him crow.

I’m not denying the women are foolish; God Almighty made ‘em match the men

‘Character’ say Novalis in one of his questionable aphorisms – ‘character is destiny’

In every parting there is an image of death.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

A friend is aperson with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

There is properly no history; only biography.

We are wiser than we know.

I like the silent church before the service begins better than any preaching.

An institution is a lengthened shadow of one man.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

We boil at different degrees.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

Euripides ( 480 – 406 B.C)
Whom god wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

W.N.Ewer ( 1885 - )
How odd
Of God
To Choose
The Jews

George Farquhr ( 1678-1707)
There’s no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Hanging and marriage, you kmow, go by Destiny.

Emperor Ferdinand I ( 1506 –1564)
Let justice be done, though the world perish

Ludwig Feuerbach ( 1804 – 1872)
A man is what he eats.

Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 1754)
I describe not men, but manners, not an individual, but a species.

Love and scandal are the best sweetners of tea.

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the saying is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Gustave Flaubert ( 1821 – 1880)
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of
Instruction. No, read in order to live.

Marjore Fleming ( 1803 –1811)
Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.

Samuel Foote ( 1720 –1 777)
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 –1790)
Remember that time is money

There never was a good war and bad peace.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Man is a tool making animal.

Robert Frost ( 1874 – 1963)
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woma’s birthday but never remembers her age

James Anthony Froude ( 1818 –1894)
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.

Thomas Fuller ( 1608 – 1661)
He knows litlle, who tells his wife all he knows.

Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction.

John Gay (1685-1732)
A fox may steal your hens, sir,
If lawyer’s hand is fee’d, sir
He steals your whole estate.

One wife is too much for most husbands to hear,
But two at a time there’s no mortal can bear.

She who has never loved has never lived.

Edward Gibbon ( 1737 –1794)
Corruption the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Sir W.S.Gilbert ( 1836-1911)
But they could not chat together – they had not been introduced.

When everyone is somebodee, Then no one’s anybody.

Things are seldom ehat they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

The nouse of peers, Throughout the what
Did nothing in particular
And did it well.


W.E.Gladstone (1809 –1898)
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes

Hermann Goering ( 1893-1946)
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
When I hear anyone talk of cultures, I reach for my revolver.

Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer

A useless life is a early death.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
Don’t let’s make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Leontine: An only son, sir, might expect more indulgence.
Croaker: An only father, sir, might expect more obedience.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

As for murmurs, mother we grumble a little now and then, to be sure.
But there is no love lost between us.

A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

I find you want me to furnish with argument and intellects too.

As I take my shoes from my shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest.

Edmond and Jules De Goncourt ( 1822-1896 and 1830-1870)
Historians tell the story of the past, novelist the story of the present.

Richard Grafton (?-1572?)
Thirty days hath November,
April june and September,
February hath twenty-eight alone
And all the rest thirty one.

James Grainger (1721?-1766)
What is fame? An empty bubble;
Gold? A transient, shining trouble.

Horace Greeley (1811-1737)
Go west, young man, and grow with the country.

Gregory VII (1020-1085)
I have loved justice and hated inquity; therefore I die in exile

Etienne De Grellet
[Stephen Grellet](1773-1855)
I shall pass through this world but once, if, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

George and Weedon Grossmith (1847-1912 and 1854-1919)
What’s the good of a home if you are never in it?

George Grossmith The Younger (1874-1935) and Fred Thompson (1884-1949)
Another little drink wouldn’t do us any harm.

Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856)
On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.

Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764)
His doubts are better than most people’s certainities.

Rev.E.J.Hardy (20 cent.)
How to be happy though married.

Julius and Augustus Hare(1795-1855 and 1792-1834)
Purity is feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour.

Francis Brett [Bret] Harte (1836-1902)
We are ruined by Chinese cheap labour.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
His worst is better than any other person’s best.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

No young man shall believes he shall ever die.

George Wilhem Hegel (1770-1831)
What experience and history teach is this – that people and governments never have learnt anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would be never to have born.

God will pardon me, it is His trade.

Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875)
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

O.Henry [W.S.Porter](1862-1910)
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.

Sir A.P.Herbert (1890-)
Bible, laid open, millions of surprises.

William Edward Hickson (1803-1870)
‘Tis a lesson you should heed,
Try, try again.
If at first you don’t’t succed,
Try, try again.

Hippocrates (c.460-357 B.C.)
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Extreme remedies are most appropriate for extreme diseases.

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
The great masses of people … will more easily fall victims to great lie than to a small one.

J.H.Holmes (1879..)
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
The world’s great men have not commonly scholars, not its great scholars great men.

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

To be seventy year’s young is sometimes far more hopeful than to be forty years old.

William Hone (1780-1842)
A good lather is half the shave.

Thomas hood (1799-1845)

Alas1 my everlasting peace
Is broken into pieces

Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1816-1841)
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty.

Anthony Hope {sir Anthony Hope Hawkins](1863-1933)
He is very fond of making things he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Unless one is genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.


Horace (65-8 B.C.)
It is when I struggle to brief that I become obscure.

By right means, if you can, but by any means make money.

Anger is brief madness.


Richard Henry [Hengist]Horne (1803 – 1884)
‘Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
For words are word, and the word is God.

David Hume (1711-1776)
Beauty in things exist in the minds that contemplates them.

Custom then, is the great guide of human life.

Margaret Hungerford (1855?-1897)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Francis Hutcheson(1694-1746)
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

That action is best which procure the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is some thing curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

T.H.Huxley (1825-1895)
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

Irrationaly helld truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

It is customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Henry Ibsen (1828-1906)
The strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone.

What’s a man’s first duty?
The answer’s brief: to be himself.
W.R.Inge, Dean of St Paul’s (1860-1954)
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

R.G.Ingersoll (1833-1899)
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments – there are consequences.

Few rich men own their own property. The Property own them.

Washington Irving (1783-1859)
A woman’s whole life is history of affections.

A sharp tongue is the only edged tools that grows keener with constant use.

William James (1842-1910)
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Error of opinin be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none.

A littele rebellion now and then is a good thing.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

I like work : it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me : the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857)
We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity.

Loves’ like measles – all the worse when it comes late in life.

Philander Johnson (1866-1939)
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

Dr.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Of all the griefs that harass the distressed,
Sure the most bitter is a scornfull jest.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentallu determined to some particular direction.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasure.

Examples are always more efficacious than precept.

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.

Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

A gentleman wh had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson sais, it was the triumph of hope over experience.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasure of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Sir, it is so far being natural for a man and woman to live in a state marriage, that we find all the motives that they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilized society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

No man but ablockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Boswell: Then Sir, what is poetry?
Johnson: Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.



To Oliver Goldsmith, Poet, naturalist, and historian, who left hardly any style of writing untouched, and touched nothing that he diid not adorn.

It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is not undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of spirit of any person appearing after death. All arguments are against it; but all belief is for it.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

It it rained knowledge, I’d hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men. He who aspires to be a hero… must drink brandy.

Boswell: Is not Giant;s Causeway worth seeing?
Johnson: Worth seeing? Yes: but not worth goint to see.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a
‘good man’, upon easier than I was formerly.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the shortcut to everything.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because language are the pedigree of nations.

It is ridiculous for a Whig to pretend to be honest. He cannot hold out.

A man may be very sincere in good principle, without having goos practice.

C.G.Jung (1875-1961)

Religion, it might be said, is the term that designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been altered by the experience of the numinosum.

Junius(18 cent)
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince orselves.

Juvenal (60-c.130)
No one ever reached the depth of wickedness all at once.

Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)
If we are to abolish the death penalty, let our friends the murderers make the first move.


John Keates(1795-1821)
Pleasure is oft a visitant, but pain
Clings cruely to us.

The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing- to let the mind be thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Thomas A Kempis (1380-1471)
It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Man proposes God disposes.

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
The two wyas: one is to suffer; the other is to become a professor of the fact that another suffered.

Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)
And Woman is only Woman, but good cigar is a smoke.

If you can mmet with the Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings- nor lose the common touch.

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Why and When
And how and where and who.

Ye thought? Ye are not paid to think.

You may carve it on his tombstone, youmay cut it on his card,
That a young man married is a young man marred.

All the people like us are We
And everyone else I they.

Being kissed by a man who diidn’t wax his moustache was- like eating an egg without salt.
Words are ofcourse, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Thomas KYD (1557-1595?)
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountaind fraught with tears;
O life, no life, but lively form of death;
Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs


Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696)
There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

The former [Corneille] paints men as they should be, the latter [Racine] paints them as they are.

Jean De La Fontaine(1621-1695)
The stronger man’s argument is always the best.

Well, my friend, get me out of danger. You can make your speeche afterwards.

I bend but do not break.

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

It’s a double pleasure to trick the trickster.

This fellow did not see further than his own nose.

Help yourself and heaven will help you.

People must help one another; it is nature’s law.

What God does, he does well.

A hungry stomach has no ears.

But the shortest works are always best.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days, - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I hate a man who swallows it [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating.
I suspect his tastes in higher matters.

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices – made up of likings and dislikings.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it , is compsed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.

I came home… hungry as a hunter.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

I greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Mary Lamb(1764-1847)
A child’s a plaything for an hour.

Letitia Landon(1802-1838)
As beautiful as woman’s blush,-
As evanescent too.

Walter Savage Landor(1775-1864)
There is delight in singing tho’ none hear
Beside the singer

Andrew Lang(1844-1912)
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts- for support rather than illumination.

Frederick LangBridge(1849-1923)
Two men look out through the same bars
One sees the mud, and one the stars

Sir Harry Lauder (1870-1950)
O! it’s nice to get up in the mornin’,
But it’s nicer to stay in bed.

Stephen leacock(1869-1944)
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram – that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947)
The cry of the little peoples goes upto God in vain,
For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.

N.Lenin(1870-1924)
It is true that liberty is precious- so precious that it must be rationed.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

Sir Roger L’Estrange (1616-1704)
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
I intend no modification of my oft- expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

That this nation, under God, Shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

With malice towards none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes many of them.

Maxim Litvinov(1876-1951)
Peace is indivisible.

Robert Lloyd (1733-1764)
Slow and steady wins the race.

John Locke(1632-1704)
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Cesare Lombroso(1836-1909)
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

H.W.Longfellow(1807-1882)
And the song, from the beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

Not in the clamour of the crowded strret,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

Let us, then be up, and doing,
With heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pusuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman;
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Though she draws him, yet she follows;
Useless each without the other.


Louis XIV(1638-1715)

First feeling are always the more natural.

Lucretius(99-55 B.C)

Such are the heights to wickedness that men are driven by religion

Constant dripping hollows out stone.

Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Here I Stand, I cannot do otherwise.

Who loves not wine, woman, and song,
Remains a fool his whole life long.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton(1803-1873)
Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Sir James Mackintosh(1765-1831)
The commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Joseph De Maistre (1754-1821)
Every nation has the government that it deserves.

Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593)
I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Don Marquis (1878-1937)
Ours is a world where people don’ know what they want and are willing to go through
hell to get it.

Martial (c. 40-c .104)
Life is not living, but being in health.

Karl Marx(1818-1883)
The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain.
Workers of the world unite.

Religion .. is the opium of the people.

Philip Massinger(1583-1640)
He that would govern othere, first should be
The master of himself.

W.Somerset Maugham (1874-)
You know, ofcourse, that the Tasmanians, who never commited adultery, are now extinct.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self-indulgence.

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

H.L.Mencken(1880-1956)
I’ve made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

George Meredith (1828-1909)
I expect woman will be the last thing civilized by man.

Kissing don’t last: cookery do!

Owen Meredith [Earl Of Lytton](1831-1891)
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Dixon Merritt(1879-1954)
A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week,
But I’m darned if I know how the helican.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

All good things which exist are the fruit of originality.

The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

John Milton (1608-1674)

What hath night to do with the sleep

That Power
Which erring men call chance.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

A shout that tore hell’s concave, and beyond
Frightened the reign of Chaos and old night.

Care
Sat on his faded Cheek.

Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

With thee conversing I forget all time.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.

The sum of earthly bliss.

J.B.Poquelin, called Moliere (1622-1673)

I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

Virtue in this world should be malleable.

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

People of quality know everything without learning anything.

It is public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

Cosmo Monkhouse (1840-1901)

There was a old party of Lyme,
Who married three wives at one time,
Whwn asked ‘why the third?’
He replied ‘one’s absurd,
And bigamy, sir, is a crime!’

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen.

Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592)
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

The value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of years, but on your will.

The daughter-in-law of Pythogoras said that woman who goes to bed with man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat.

Many a man has been a wonder to the world, whose wife and valet has seen nothing in him that is remarkable. Few men have been admired by their servants.

It (marriage) is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

It might well be said of me that here I have merely made up a bunch of other men’s flowers, and provided nothing of my own but the string to bind them.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Charles, Baron De Montesquieu (1689-1755)

An empire found by war has to maintain itself by war.

Liberty is the right to do everything the laws allow.

Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821)
In war, moral considerations account for three-quarters, the balance of actual forces only for the other quarter.

From the sublime to ridiculous there is only one step.

The bullet that is to kill me has not yet been moulded. (Said in 1814, when the Spanish king asked whether he had ever been hit by a cannon-ball)

Christopher North [John Wilson ] (1785-1854)

Laws were made to be broken.

Caroline Norton (1808-1877)

I do not love thee! – no! I do not love thee!
And yet when thou art absent I am sad.

John Opie (1761-1806)
I mix them with brains, sir. [When asked he mixed his colors]

George Orwell (1903-1950)

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Thomas Otway (1652-1685)
O woman! Lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you;
Angels are painted fair to look like you.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately . One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime.

Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Samuel Palmer (1805-1881)

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

Dorothy Parker (1893-)
Men seldom makes passes
At girls who wear glasses.

Samuel Parr (1747-1825)
Now that the old lion is dead, evry ass thinks he may kick at him.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

If you want people to think well of you,
Do not speak well of yourself.

If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have changed.

The heart has its reasons, which are quite unknown to the head.

T.L.Peacock (1785-1866)
He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the University, where it was carefully taken out of him.

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

Persius (34-62)

Meet the disease on its first appearance.

E.J.Phelps (1822-1900)

The man who makes no mistakes does not not usually make anything.

Stephen Phillips (1674-1749)
A man not old but mellow, like good wine.

Wendell Phillips (1864-1915)
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

William Pitt (1759-1806)
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of hman freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Plautus (254-184 B.C.)

He whom the gods favour dies young.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night;
God said ‘Let Newton be!’ and all was light. (Epitaph intended for Isaac Newton)

In wit a man; simplicity a child.

Pride, the never failing vice of fools.

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Then unbelieving priests reformed the nation,
And taught more pleasant methods of salvation.

All seems infected that th’ infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul.

All nature is but art, unknow to thee;
All chance, direction which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Has she has no faults then (Envy saya), Sir?
Yes she has one, I must aver;
When all the world conspires to praise her,
The woman’s deaf and does not hear.

Where’er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade: Where’er you tread,
The blushing flowers shall rise,
And all things fourish where you turn your eyes.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

They never who always drink;
They always talk, who never think.

Protagoras (485-415 B.C)
Man is the measure of all things.

Punch

Advice to persons about to marry. – Don’t.

Never do to-day what you can put off till to-morrow.

Look here, steward, if this is coffee, I want tea; but if this is tea, then I wish for coffee.

Francois Rabelais (1492-1553)
I drink for the thirst to come.

Appetite comes with eating.

Jean Racine (1639-1699)
Oh, I have loved him too much to feel n hate for him.
Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.

She wavers, she hesitates; in one word she is a woman.

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902)
So little done , so much to do.

Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

We need greater virtues to bear good fortune than bad.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noticing them in others.

One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

To establish oneself in the world one has to do all one can to appear established.

Love of justice in most men is no more than fear of suffering injustice.

It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

One gives nothing freely as advice.

Hypocrisy is the homage paid by the vice to the virtue.

One’s over-great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

It takes great cleverness to conceal one’s cleverness.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no larger ones.

We seldom attribute common sense except to people who agree with us.

Quarrels would not last long if the faults were on one side only.

Most usually our virtues are vices in disguise.

Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
It doesn’t much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
The forgotten men at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

A world founded upon four essential freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way – ever where in the world.
The Third is freedom from want …. Everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear … anywhere in the world.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
No man is justified by doing evil on the ground of expediency.

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Earl of Roscommon (1637-1685)
Choose an author as you choose a friend.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather.

Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
My name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-More; Too-late, Farewell.

Jean –Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)
The purest and thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Bertrand, Lord Russell (1872-)
Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supremen beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Lord John Russell (1792-1878)

A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.

Saki [H.H.Munro] (1870-1916)

In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

Friedrich Von Schlegel (1722-1829)

A historian is a prophet in reverse.

Arthur Schopenhauer(1788-1860)
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

The fundamental false of female character is that it has no sense of justice.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; Evry coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

C.P.Scott (1846-1932)
Comment is free but facts are sacred.

William Scott, Lord Stowell (1745-1836)
A precedent embalms a principle.

John Selden (1584-1654)
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.

‘Tis not the eating, nor ‘yis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

A king is thing men have made for their own sakes, for quiteness’s sake, Just as if in one family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

Marriage is nothing but a civil contract.

Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do.

W.H.Seward (1801-1872)

But there is higher law than the constitution.

Thomas Shadwell (1642? –1692)

Words may be false and full of art;
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

All’s Well that Ends Well

A young man married is a man that’s marred.

There’s place and means for evry man alive.


Antony and Cleopatra

My salad days, When I was green in judgement.

Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news.

As You Like It

My pride fell with my fortunes.

All the world’s a stage
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
mewling and pucking in the nurse’s arms
And then the whinning school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwilling to school. And then the lover
Sighing like furnace, with awoeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.
Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and moral instances,
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean ans slippered pantaloon .
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose well saved a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans tatse, sans everything.

Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.

Cymbelin

I have not slept one wink.

He that sleeps feels not the toothache.

Hamlet
The haed is not more ative to the heart.

All that live must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.

By indirections find directions out.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

You speak like a green girl,
Unsifted in such perilous circumstances.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

One woe doth tread upon another’s heel,
So fast they follow.

Henry IV Pt I
It would be argument for a weak, laughter for a month, a good jest for ever.

A plague of all cowards, I say.

O! while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.


Henry IV Pt 2
If I had thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potation and addict themselves to sack.

Henry V
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Men of few words are the best men.

Every subject’s duty is the King’s; but every subject’s soul is his own.

Henry VI Pt 1

Delays have dangerous ends.

Henry VI Pt 2

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

Julius Caesar

So every bondman in his own hand bears
The power to cancel his captivity.

For he will never follow anything
That other men begin.

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

King John

Life is astedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or adda nother hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
In wasteful and ridiculous excess.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones.

King Lear
Nothing will come of nothing: speak again

This is the excellent foppery of the world… we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion,
Knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.

Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense!

Love’s Labour’s Lost
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
Three-piled hyperboles, Spruce affectation,
Figure pedantical.

Macbeth
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not.

Measure for Measure
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good
We oft might win.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

This will last out a night in Russia,
When nights are longest there.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

O! it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

Much Ado About Nothing
Done to death by slanderous tongues.

Othello
In following him,
I follow but myself.

Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof.

On horror’s head horror’s accumulate.

Romeo and Juliet
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.

Tempt not a desperate man.

The Taming of the Shrew
This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

The Tempest
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

They’ll take suggestions as a cat laps milk.

He that dies pays all debts.

Titus Andronicus
He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause.

Twelfth Night

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.

Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

The Winter’s Tale
Though I am not naturally honest,
I am so sometimes by chance.

Poems

The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After thousand victories once foiled,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toiled.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

G.Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The worst sin towards fellow creators is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that’s the essence of humanity.

I never expect a soldier to think.

All professions are conspiracies against laity.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.

He who can, does, He who cannot, teaches.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself, Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.

There is only one religion though there are hundred versions of it.

A.F.Sheldon (1868-1935)
He profits most who serves best.

P.B.Shelly (1792-1822)
How wonderful is death, Death and his brother sleep!

He gave man speech, and speech created thought,
Which is the measure of the universe.

Philip H.Sheridan (1831-1888)
The only good Indian is a dead Indian.

R.B.Sheridan (1751-1816)
I must – I will – I can – I ought – I do.

Algernon Sidney(1622-1683)
Liars ought to have good memories.

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never mad a mistake never made a discovery.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, enjoy it.
Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Rev. Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
He [macaulay] has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Sophocles (495-406 B.C)
Wonders are amny, and none is more wonderful than man.

I depict men as they ought to be, but Euripides portrays them as they are.

Robert Southwell (1561?-1595)
Times go by turns, and chances change by course,
From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Science is organized knowledge.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity… it is a part of nature.

It was remarked to me …. That play billiards was the sign of an ill-spent youth.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Edmund Spencer (1552?-1599)
It is the mind that maketh good or ill,
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Benedict Spinoza (1632-16977)
Man is a social animal.

MME De Stael (1766-1817)
To understand all is to forget all.

Sir Richard Steele(1672-1729)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Rose is a rose is arose is a rose.

Henri Beyle called Stendhal (1783-1842)
Almost all misfortune in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.

J.K.Stephens (1859-1892)
Birthdays ? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men:
You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I:
Or perhaps in the night:
What then?

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)

‘Tis known by the name of perseverance in a god cause – and of obstinancy in a bad one.

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Every one lives by selling something.

I’ve a grand memory of forgetting, David.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Marriage is like life in this – that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

To marry is to domesticate the recording Angel. Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Give me the young man who has the brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

R. S. Surtees (1803-1864)

The only infallible rule we now is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

Jonathan Swift ( 1667-1745)
Hobbes clearly proves that every creature
Lives in a state of war by nature.

I told him…hat we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style.

Publilius Syrus( 1 cent B.C.)

Necessity knows no law.

Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893)
Vice and virtue are products like sulphuric acid and sugar.

Charles-Maurice De Talleyrand (1754-1838)
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Ann and Jane Taylor (1782-1866 and 1783-1827)
Thank you, pretty cow, that made, Pleasnat milk to soak my bread.

Twinkle, twinkle…….

Bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
He that loves not his wife and children, feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

For man is man and master of his fate.

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

He seems so near and yet so far.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.

Man for the field and woman for the hearth: Man for the sword and for the neddle she: Man with the head and woman with the heart: Man to command and woman to obey.

Terence (195-159 B.C)
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
Fortune favours for the brave.

As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

H.D.Thoreau(1817-1862)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Our life is friterred away by detail…
Simplify, simplify.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

James Thurber (1894-1961)
Well, if I called the wrong Number why did you Answer the phone?

Titus Vespasianus (40 or 41-81)
Friends, I have lost a day.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The highest wisdom has but one science – the science of the whole – the science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it.

All, everything I understand, I understand because I love.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

The most powerful weapon of ignorance –the diffusion of printed material.

G.M.Trevelyan (1876-1961)
Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
I agree with no man’s opinion. I have some of my own.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all.

Thomas Tusser (1524? –1580)
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;
For master and servant oft changing is loss.

Mark Twain (S.L.Clemens)(1835-1910)

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

They spell in Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Are you going to hang him anyhow – and try him afterward?

All the modern inconveniences.

At the bottom he [Carlyle] was probably fond of them [Americabs], but he was always able to conceal it.

An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

All say, ‘How hard it is to die’ – as strange compliant to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Ralph R.Upton ( Late 19 cent)
Stop; look; listen. [Notice devised in 1912 for American railway crossings]

Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747)
Great thoughts come from the hearts.

Alfred De Vigny (1797-1863)
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Virgil (70-19 B.C)
Anger supplies the arms.

Endure, and preserve yourselves for better things.

Happy is he who has been able to learn the cause of things.

Meanwhile time is flying – flying never return.

Francois – Marie Arouet, called Voltaire (1694-1778)
If god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

The secret of the arts is to correct nature.

Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.

[Men] use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts.

All our nicest history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

If God made us in His image, we have certainly returned the compliments.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend you to death your right to say it.

Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)
They now ring the bells, but they will soon wring their hands.

Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
I remember than a wise friend of mine did usually say, ‘that which is evrybody’s business is nobody’s business’.

No man can lose what he never had.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
There is always room at the top. [When advised not to become a lawyer, since the profession was overcrowded]

The past, at least, is secure.

Fearful concatenation of circumstances.

John Webster (1580?-1625?)

I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know from what you do; that’s what I called ‘guessing what was at the other side of the hill’.

I used to say of him [Napolean] that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand man.

Possible? Is Anything imposssible? Read the newspapers.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Educate men without religion and you make them but clever devils.

H.G.Wells (1866-1946)
You can’t have money like that and not swell out.

John Wesley (1703-1791)
Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this nor any text of scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin.
‘Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness.’

ArchBishop Whately of Dublin (1787-1863)
Happiness is no laughing matter.

J.A.McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
I am not arguing with you – Iam telling you.

No, I ask it for knowledge of life time.

George WhiteField (1714-1770)
I had rather wear out than rust out.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
I think I could think an live with animals,
They’re so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

Behold, I do not give lecture or a little charity.
When I give I give myself.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1855-1919)
No questioned is ever settled
Until it is settled right.

Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.

So many Gods, So many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

I know not whether laws be right,
Or whether laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year ,
A year whose days are long.

The good ended happily, and the bad ended unhappily. That is what fiction means.

In matters of grave importance, Style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

I can resist everything but temptation.

I am the only person in the world I like to know thoroughly.

Experience is the name everyone gives their mistakes.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

A liitele sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Ah! Don’t say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840-1932)
If all the good people were clever.
And all the clever people were good,
The world would be nicer than ever
We though that it possibly could.

But somehow, ‘tis seldom or never
The two hit it off as they should;
The good are so harsh to the clever,
The clever so rude to the good!

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Edward Young (1683-1765)
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But for its loss.

Be wise today; ‘tis madness to defer.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Time flies, death urges, knells call, heaven invite
Hell threatens.