|
Quotes by Famous People
[COLOR="DarkGreen"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][B][U][CENTER][SIZE="6"]Quotes by Famous People[/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
[B][I]This thread has been introduced in order to collect famous quotation. An essay can be adorned by the appendment of suitable quotations in flow. All members are requested to enrich this thread with lucrative qoutes by famous authors. Your contribution will be highly appreciated. Thank you very much[/I][/B] [B][U][CENTER][SIZE="3"][COLOR="Sienna"]Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. [COLOR="Red"]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...[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" 2. [COLOR="DimGray"]The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" 3. [COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, [/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Hamlet 4. [COLOR="Olive"]There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" 5. [COLOR="DarkOrchid"]There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" 6. [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" 7. [COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"]O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see![/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" 8. [B]To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, [/B] William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" 9. [COLOR="Teal"]The lady doth protest too much, methinks.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" 10. [COLOR="DarkRed"]For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard...[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" 11. [COLOR="Blue"]I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" 12. [COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"]Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" 13. [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]A hit, a very palpable hit.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" 14. [COLOR="SlateGray"]Beware the Ides of March.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 15. [COLOR="Red"]But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 16. [COLOR="DarkGreen"]Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. [/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 17. [COLOR="Teal"]Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 18. [COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. [/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 19. [COLOR="SeaGreen"]Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! [/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "King Henry V" 20. [B]This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.[/B] William Shakespeare, "King John" 21. [COLOR="RoyalBlue"]How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child![/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "King Lear" 22. [COLOR="Magenta"]Pray you now, forget and forgive.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "King Lear" 23. [COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"]This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, [/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "King Richard II" 24. [COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, [/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "King Richard III" 25. [COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost" 26. [B]Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? [/B] William Shakespeare, "Macbeth" 27. [COLOR="Magenta"]The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Macbeth" 28. [COLOR="Sienna"]By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. William Shakespeare, "Macbeth" Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1 29. [COLOR="DarkGreen"]What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure" 30. [COLOR="DarkRed"]He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing" 31. [COLOR="Blue"]Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: [/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1 32. [COLOR="Purple"]I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Othello" 33. [COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" 34. [COLOR="Indigo"]Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" 35. [COLOR="Green"]What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" 36. [B]A plague o' both your houses![/B] William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" 37. [COLOR="DimGray"]It is a wise father that knows his own child.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" 38. [COLOR="Red"]But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" 39. [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]This is the short and the long of it.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor" 40. [COLOR="SeaGreen"]Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor" 41. [COLOR="Magenta"]Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: [/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "The Tempest" 42. [COLOR="Blue"]Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "The Tempest" 43. [COLOR="DarkOrange"]He that dies pays all debts.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "The Tempest" 44. [COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "The Tempest" 45. [COLOR="Gray"]If music be the food of love, play on; [/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night" 46. [B]Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.[/B] William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet' 47. [COLOR="Blue"]The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, 'King Henry IV part I' 48. [COLOR="Red"]Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, Hamlet 49. [COLOR="Olive"]Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare 50. [COLOR="RoyalBlue"]My salad days, When I was green in judgment.[/COLOR] William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra" |
[B][U][CENTER][SIZE="5"][COLOR="Blue"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Famous Quotes and Quotations by [/FONT]
[FONT="Century Gothic"][COLOR="Green"][U]Aristotle [/U][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]The Greek Philosopher[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. 2. We are what we repeatedly do. 3. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. 4. Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. 5. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. 6. All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. 7. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. 8. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. 9. It is possible to fail in many ways... while to succeed is possible only in one way. 10. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. 11. One swallow does not make a summer. 12. Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. 13. All men by nature desire knowledge. 14. Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends. 15. To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. 16. We make war that we may live in peace. 17. We must as second best... take the least of the evils. 18. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. 19. I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. 20. With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. 21. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. 22. Nature does nothing uselessly. 23. They should rule who are able to rule best. 24. It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. 25. Law is order, and good law is good order. 26. If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. 27. Well begun is half done. 28. A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. 29. It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. 30. The basis of a democratic state is liberty. 31. Man is by nature a political animal. 32. Evil draws men together. 33. Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. 34. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. 35. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. |
[B][U][CENTER][SIZE="5"][COLOR="blue"]Albert Einstein - the father of Relativity![/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B]
1. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. 2. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. 3. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. 4. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. 5. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. 6. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. 7. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. 8. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. 9. Imagination is more important than knowledge. 10. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. 11. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. 12. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. 13. The important thing is not to stop questioning. 14. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. 15. The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. 16. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. 17. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. 18. The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. 19. Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. 20. You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. 21. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. 22. If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. 23. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. 24. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. 25. You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. 26. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. 27. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. 28. The discovery of the nuclear chain reaction need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. 29. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. 30. If you can speak of technical things only in technical terms, you do not understand them. 31. If I'd known what I was unleashing, I'd have become a watchmaker. 32. I want to know all Gods thoughts... all the rest are just details. 33. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. 34. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. 35. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. 36. God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. 37. If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? 38. Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. 39. Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. 40. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 41. Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. 42. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. 43. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction. 44. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. 45. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. 46. Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. 47. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. 48. Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. 49. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy. 50. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. 51. The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service. 52. Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty 53. Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. 54. The only source of knowledge is experience. 55. Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. 56. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labours of others. 57. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. 58. I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe. 59. One does not make wars less likely by formulating rules of warfare. 60. It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer. 61. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. 62. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love 63. When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. 64. I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. 65. Mankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government. 66. War cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated. 67. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. |
[B][U][CENTER][SIZE="5"][COLOR="Purple"]Famous Quotes by Abraham Lincoln[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B]
1. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. 2. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? 3. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. 4. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. 5. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. 6. Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. 7. Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. 8. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. 9. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. 10. The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. 11. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. 12. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. 13. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. 14. Whatever you are, be a good one. 15. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. 16. People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. 17. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. |
[B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Famous Quote by Karl Marx[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B]
1. Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. 2. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough [CENTER][B][U][SIZE="4"][COLOR="blue"]Famous Quotes by Isaac Newton [/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/B][/CENTER] 1. If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. [CENTER][B][U][SIZE="4"][COLOR="SeaGreen"]Famous Quote by Plato[/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/B][/CENTER] 1. Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. 2. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. 3. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. 4. No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. 5. The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. 6. Friends have all things in common. 7. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. 8. The beginning is the most important part of the work. 9. The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. 10. When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less, on the same amount of income. 11. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. [B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="DimGray"]Famous Quote by Mother Teresa[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. 2. Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. |
[B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="DarkRed"]Famous Quotes and Quotations by Sir Francis Bacon[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B]
1. Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. 2. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. 3. Houses are built to live in, more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. 4. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. 5. Knowledge itself is power. 6. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. 7. Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. 8. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. 9. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. 10. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. [B][U][CENTER][COLOR="blue"][SIZE="4"]Famous Quotes and Quotations by Napoleon Bonaparte [/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. 2. Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. 3. The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. 4. Victory belongs to the most persevering. 5. Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. 6. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. 7. If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. 8. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. 9. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. [B][U][CENTER][COLOR="DarkGreen"][SIZE="4"]Famous Quote by Sir Thomas Browne[/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. 2. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. |
[B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Famous Quotes by Augustus Caesar[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B]
1. Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. 2. I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. [B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]Famous Quotes by Julius Caesar[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. Men willingly believe what they wish. 2. It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. 3. Et tu, Brute. (You also, Brutus) [B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="Green"]Famous Quote by Lord Chesterfield[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. 2. The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. 3. Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. 4. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 5. Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. 6. Common sense is the best sense I know of. 7. Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. [SIZE="4"][B][U][CENTER][COLOR="Sienna"]Famous Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke[/COLOR][/CENTER][/U][/B][/SIZE] 1. If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. 2. It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 4. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. [B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="blue"]Famous Quotes by Charlie Chaplin[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. In the end, everything is a gag. 2. I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. 3. I hate the theatre. I also hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins. 4. Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify. 5. If you step off the curb with your left foot, they accuse you of being a Communist. [B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="Olive"]Famous Quote by George Herbert[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. 2. You must lose a fly to catch a trout. 3. The best mirror is an old friend. |
[B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="Gray"]Famous Quote by Different Kings
[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. Never make a defence or an apology until you are accused. King Charles I of England 2. The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. King Edward VIII 3. The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds. King Farouk 4. When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. Martin Luther King Jr. 5. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr. 6. The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. Martin Luther King Jr 7. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King Jr 8. All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. Martin Luther King Jr 9. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King Jr 10. I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' Martin Luther King Jr 11. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr 12. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr [B][U][CENTER][SIZE="5"][COLOR="DarkGreen"]Famous Quote by William Wordsworth[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. 2. A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. 3. But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. 4. Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. 5. Faith is a passionate intuition. 6. Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. 7. For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. 8. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. 9. Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. 10. How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. 11. I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. 12. In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. 13. Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. 14. Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. 15. Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. 16. One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. 17. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. 18. Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. 19. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. 20. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. 21. Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. 22. That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. 23. That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. 24. The child is father of the man. 25. The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. 26. The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. 27. The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. 28. The ocean is a mighty harmonist. 29. The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. 30. What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. 31. When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. 32. Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. 33. With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. |
"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view"
- Mao Tse-Tung There are things that are known and things that are unknown and in between there are doors. - William Blake |
[QUOTE=sureshlasi][B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Famous Quote by Karl Marx[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B]
1. Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. 2. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough [CENTER][B][U][SIZE="4"][COLOR="blue"]Famous Quotes by Isaac Newton [/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/B][/CENTER] 1. If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. [CENTER][B][U][SIZE="4"][COLOR="SeaGreen"]Famous Quote by Plato[/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/B][/CENTER] 1. Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. 2. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. 3. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. 4. No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. 5. The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. 6. Friends have all things in common. 7. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. 8. The beginning is the most important part of the work. 9. The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. 10. When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less, on the same amount of income. 11. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. [B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="DimGray"]Famous Quote by Mother Teresa[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B] 1. I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. 2. Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.[/QUOTE] 3.If you do good, people will accuse you of ulterior motives, do good anyway 4.If you are successfull, you will win false friends but true enemies, be successfull anyway 5.The smallest person with the smallest mind can strike down the biggest person with the biggest mind,be big anyway |
[B][U][CENTER][SIZE="4"][COLOR="DarkRed"]More Quotes by Mother Teresa[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/U][/B]
7. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies 8. Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. 9. Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. 10. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. 11. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise 12. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. 13. Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. 14. God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. 15. Good works are links that form a chain of love. 16. I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. 17. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. 18. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. 19. I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. 20. I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. 21. I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? 22. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. 23. If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. 24. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. 25. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. 26. In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. 27. Intense love does not measure, it just gives. 28. It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. 29. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. 30. It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. 31. It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. 32. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. 33. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. 34. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. 35. Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. 36. Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. 37. Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. 38. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. 39. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. 40. Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. 41. Peace begins with a smile. 42. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. 43. Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. 44. The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. 45. The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. 46. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. 47. The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. 48. There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. 49. We are all pencils in the hand of God. 50. There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. 51. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. 52. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. 53. We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. 54. Life isn't about the cherished moments it is also about the hard ones. Just knowing each day that you will arise with the bright shining sun in your eyes. And end with the cool breeze upon your face as you slowly reflect the day that passed by. |
[CENTER][B][U][SIZE="6"][COLOR="DarkRed"]Quotes by Helen Keller
[/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/B][/CENTER] All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. Helen Keller Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. Helen Keller As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. Helen Keller Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Keller College isn't the place to go for ideas. Helen Keller Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. Helen Keller Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Helen Keller I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world. Helen Keller I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. Helen Keller I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. Helen Keller Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. Helen Keller It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. Helen Keller It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. Helen Keller It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing. Helen Keller It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. Helen Keller It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. Helen Keller It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. Helen Keller Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. Helen Keller Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow. Helen Keller Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Helen Keller Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Helen Keller Life is either a great adventure or nothing. Helen Keller Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. Helen Keller Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. Helen Keller Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Helen Keller Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. Helen Keller No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. Helen Keller No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. Helen Keller No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Helen Keller Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. Helen Keller Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Helen Keller One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. Helen Keller Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. Helen Keller Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. Helen Keller So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. Helen Keller Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Helen Keller The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Helen Keller The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. Helen Keller The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. Helen Keller The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. Helen Keller The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. Helen Keller To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. Helen Keller Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. Helen Keller True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. Helen Keller Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. Helen Keller Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. Helen Keller We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. Helen Keller What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. Helen Keller What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Helen Keller While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done. Helen Keller Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller |
famous quotes
[I]The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations. C. E. Montague There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. Samuel Johnson The more things change, the more they remain... insane. Michael Fry and T. Lewis Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. - Geri Weitzman Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams To prophesy is extremely difficult - especially with regard to the future. - Chinese proverb Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. - Shakespeare There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. - Russian proverb I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - George Burns All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. - Bob Wells The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. - Albert Einstein "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. - Bob Edwards If you think education is expensive, try Ignorance. - Andy McIntyre Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee. Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it. Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk! Churchill: And Madam, you are ugly. And tomorrow, I'll be sober, and you will still be ugly. Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. - H. L. Mencken My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. - Henny Youngman The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all. - Leo Buscaglia God does not play dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. - James Klass Not all those who wander are lost. - J R R Tolkien A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao-Tsu These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. - Gilbert Highet Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein [/I] |
| 06:07 PM (GMT +5) |
vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.