The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Winston Churchill
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
Henry Fielding
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.
Ernest Shackleton
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Rebecca West
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
C.S. Lewis, attributed
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily . . . and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
Bruce Jenner, In Can't Stop the
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.
Logan P. Smith
A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
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