They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Christopher Marlowe
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be.
Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends.
Steve Maraboli
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin
Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
Everyone has their own idea of the perfect partner, but they usually do not consider what it is they have to offer one.
Stephen Richards
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.
C.S. Lewis
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
Henry David Thoreau
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
Terry Pratchett
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.
Walter Bagehot
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
You have the ability to choose your reactions.
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, their eyes fixed upon Enjolras, had not even noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat the order: 'Take aim!' when suddenly they heard a powerful voice cry out beside them, 'Vive la Republique! Count me in.'Grantaire was on his feet. The immense glare of the whole combat he had missed and in which he had not been, appeared in the flashing eyes of the transfigured drunkard.He repeated, 'Vive la Republique!' crossed the room firmly, and took his place in front of the muskets beside Enjolras.'Two at one shot,' he said.And, turning toward Enjolras gently, he said to him, 'Will you permit it?'Enjolras shook his hand with a smile.The smile had not finished before the report was heard.Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained backed up against the wall is if the bullets had nailed him there. Except that his head was tilted. Grantaire, struck down, collapsed at his feet.
Victor Hugo
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
When great questions end, little parties begin.
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
William Shakespeare
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce
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