Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Acton
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
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
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
When money talks, few are deaf.
Earl Derr Biggers
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck
And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England's mountains green?
William Blake
He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.
Napoléon Bonaparte
No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see heaven's glories shine, and faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
Emily Brontë
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.
Rupert Brooke
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed.
Frank Buchman
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Attributed.
Edmund Burke
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
The best laid schemes of mice and men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Robert Burns
'Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.
George Byron
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
George Byron
Veni, vidi, vici.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius Caesar
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of
any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
Bernardus Carnotensis
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
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
He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
Geoffrey Chaucer
When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
G. K. Chesterton
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
The sinews of war: unlimited money.
Cicero
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour.
William Cowper
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Dalberg-Acton
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur
See how the rascals use me! They will not let my play run and yet they steal my thunder!
John Dennis
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.
Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden
Nice guys. Finish last.
Leo Durocher
Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children and cut their own fingers.
Arthur Eddington
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
April is the cruellest month.
T. S. Eliot
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
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no royal road
to geometry.
Euclid
Never give a sucker an even break.
W. C. Fields
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford
Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.
Henry Ford
Remember that time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
All that matters is love and work.
Sigmund Freud
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Holding hands at midnight
'Neath a starry sky,
Nice work if you can get it,
And you can get it if you try.
Ira Gershwin
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
Edna Gladney
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
What love is, if thou wouldst be taught,
Thy heart must teach alone -
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
Friedrich Halm
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary
Well, we knocked the bastard off.
Edmund Hillary
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness;
Endymion
John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream ...
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of
the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Christopher Marlowe
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
John Milton
The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest.
Alexander Pope
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified,
terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, I'll be honest. Winning isn't everything. Men, it's the only thing!
Version A.
Henry Russell Sanders
Sure, winning isn't every thing; it's the only thing.
Version B.
Henry Russell Sanders
O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott
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.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
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,
And by opposing end them?
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle;
Why not I with thine?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Philip Stanhope
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Alfred Tennyson
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
In Memoriam A. H. H.
Alfred Tennyson
We shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media
catch-phrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond Tutu
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
A terrace nine stories high rises from a handful of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
Lao Tzu
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Lao Tzu
Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Virgil
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
Virgil
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Mae West
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To lose one parent...may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.
P. G. Wodehouse
Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over - it is now!
Kenneth Wolstenholme
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
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