Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. —Dean Acheson, 1962

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. —Lord Acton, 1887

Man is by nature a political animal. —Aristotle, 4th century BC

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. —Neil Armstrong, 1969

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, 1813

Revenge is a kind of wild justice. —Francis Bacon, 1635

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. —Irving Berlin, 1942

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they. —Bernard of Chartres, 12th century

In the beginning was the Word. —Bible (St John's Gospel)

Politics is the art of the possible. —Otto von Bismarck, 1867

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
—William Blake, 1804–10

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre [It is magnificent, but it is not war]. —Pierre Bosquet, 1854

Reader, I married him. —Charlotte Brontë, 1847

No coward soul is mine. —Emily Brontë, 1846

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.
—Rupert Brooke, 1914

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? —Robert Browning, 1855

It's a great life if you don't weaken. —John Buchan, 1919

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph
—Edmund Burke (attributed, not found in his writings)

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley. —Robert Burns, 1796

I awoke one morning and found myself famous. —Lord Byron, 1824

Veni, vidi, vici [I came, I saw, I conquered].
—Julius Caesar, 1st century BC


It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
—Mrs Patrick Campbell, 1940

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion. —Thomas Carlyle, 1838

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today. —Lewis Carroll, 1872

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down. —Barbara Cartland, 1993

Delenda est Carthago [Carthage must be destroyed]. —Cato the Elder, 3rd century BC

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. —Edith Cavell, 1915

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. —Raymond Chandler, 1944

Let not poor Nelly starve. —Charles II, 1685

He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght. —Geoffrey Chaucer, 14th century

The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. —Lord Chesterfield, on sex

When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything. —G. K. Chesterton, 1936

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. —Winston Churchill, 1940

The sinews of war: unlimited money. —Cicero, 1st century BC

War is nothing but the continuation of politics with the admixture of other means. —Karl von Clausewitz, 1832-4

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1816

Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast. —William Congreve, 1697

Mad dogs and Englishmen Go out in the midday sun. —Noël Coward, 1931

Variety's the very spice of life. —William Cowper, 1785

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. —Stephen Decatur, 1816

Honey, I just forgot to duck. —Jack Dempsey, 1926, having lost the World Heavyweight title

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. —Charles Dickens, 1859

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels. —Benjamin Disraeli, 1864

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. —John Donne, 1624

'Excellent,' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he. —Arthur Conan Doyle; origin of the misquotation, 'Elementary, my dear Watson'.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied. —John Dryden, 1681

The times they are a-changin'. —Bob Dylan, 1964

Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. —Arthur Eddington, 1944

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety nine per cent perspiration.
—Thomas Alva Edison, c.1903

E=mc². —Albert Einstein, 1905 (usual form of his statement)

April is the cruellest month. —T. S. Eliot, 1922

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. —Elizabeth I, 1588

I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face. —Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 1940

There is no 'royal road' to geometry. —Euclid, 4th century BC

Never give a sucker an even break. —W. C. Fields, 1941

Shaken and not stirred. —Ian Fleming, 1958

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. —Henry Ford, 1909

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion. —E. M. Forster, 1910

All that matters is love and work. —Sigmund Freud, attributed

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less travelled by.
—Robert Frost, 1916

Nice work if you can get it, And you can get it if you try. —Ira Gershwin, 1937

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. —Edward Gibbon, 1796

Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon? —Duke of Gloucester, 1805

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on. —Sam Goldwyn, 1974

Give me liberty, or give me death! —Patrick Henry, 1775

Clear your mind of cant. —Samuel Johnson, 1783

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. —John Keats, 1818

Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. —John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961

I have a dream. —Martin Luther King, 1963

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you. —Rudyard Kipling, 1910

Gentlemen prefer blondes. —Anita Loos, 1925

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? —Christopher Marlowe, 1593

Fame is the spur. —John Milton, 1638

England expects that every man will do his duty. —Horatio Nelson, 1805

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. —Blaise Pascal, 1670

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. —Alexander Pope, 1733

He would, wouldn't he? —Mandy Rice-Davies, 1963

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933

O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive. —Sir Walter Scott, 1808

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results —Ernest Shackleton, 1916

To be, or not to be: that is the question. —William Shakespeare, 1601

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. —George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! —Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819

Am I no a bonny fighter? —Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886

In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1842

The lady's not for turning. —Margaret Thatcher, 1980

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, 1875-7.

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. —Mark Twain, 1897 (popular version)

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes [I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts]. —Virgil, 1st century BC

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. —Voltaire (actually a later summary of his attitude rather than his own words)

Publish and be damned. —Duke of Wellington, c.1825

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? —Mae West

To lose one parent...may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. —Oscar Wilde, 1895

A week is a long time in politics —Harold Wilson, c.1964

Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound. —P. G. Wodehouse, 1938

They think it's all over—it is now —Kenneth Wolstenhome, closing moments of World Cup Final, 1966.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. —Virginia Woolf, 1929

Earth has not anything to show more fair. —William Wordsworth, 1807

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. —William Butler Yeats, 1899

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
—Mae West

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Quotes

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for, its better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
Anna Quindlen

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Nathaniel Branden

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
Thomas H. Huxley

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Time is like a river.
You cannot touch the same water twice,
because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
Enjoy every moment of life.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

*My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.


*Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.


*Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.


*How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg


*And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.


*If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

QUOTES

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
Donald Foster

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
Moses Ibn Ezra

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Time is like a river.
You cannot touch the same water twice,
because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
Enjoy every moment of life.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Taken Care Of ,1965

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Patricia Neal

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James (1842 - 1910)

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James (1842 - 1910)

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Aarwaa

Pakistan is ruled by three As - Army, America and Allah.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell (1937 - )

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958), The Silver Stallion, 1926

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
Paul Fussell

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert G. Allen

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954

An optimist is the human personification of spring.
Susan J. Bissonette

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Aarwaa

Pakistan is ruled by three As - Army, America and Allah.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arnold Bennett

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
Arnold Palmer (1929 - )

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
Hasidic Saying

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Philip Adams

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.
Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren (1934 - )

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Aarwaa

Pakistan is ruled by three As - Army, America and Allah.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

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.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan (1941 - )

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough (1933 - )

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockefeller (1915 - )

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

Nothing fails like success.
Gerald Nachman

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'
Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Next Page

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Aarwaa

Pakistan is ruled by three As - Army, America and Allah.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills (1929 - )

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby (1937 - )

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
Bill Lyon

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal (1925 - )

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
John Keats (1795 - 1821)

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney (1920 - )

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka (1939 - )

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
Randy K. Milholland

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)

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Aarwaa

Pakistan is ruled by three As - Army, America and Allah.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Proper Studies", 1927

Where facts are few, experts are many.
Donald R. Gannon

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams (1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the
Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
John Dewey (1859 - 1952)

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
John Gunther (1901 - 1970)

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)

Facts are stupid things.
Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader

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Aarwaa

Pakistan is ruled by three As - Army, America and Allah.