If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
Chinese Proverb
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times.There is no primary or authoritative source for this in Twain's known writings or speeches.
Mark Twain, attibuted
The ballot is stronger than bullets.
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, S
I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B.: This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, On the in
...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Addr
The law is sic a ass - a idiot.
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
David G. Farragut, Battle of Mob
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fa
Everything that can be invented, has been invented.
Charles H. Duell, 1899
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
Horace, Odes
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians.
George Santayana, The Life of Re
True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, O
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
Sir Alec Issigonis, The Guardian
The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley.
Robert Burns, "To A Mouse"
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.
Colonel William Prescott, Battle
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of
It ain't braggin' if you can back it up.
Dizzy Dean
Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches.Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
King Henry IV of France
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson, "The Liberty Son
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Mark Twain, After reading his ow
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.
S. G. Tallentyre, The Friends of
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.
Finley Peter Dunne, "Mr. Dooley'
Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
Jean Paul
Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
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