Post by (AK)Allergy on Dec 21, 2009 11:05:17 GMT -5
I was thinking the other day about how many quotes are out there. There are so many that I would really like to include in my signature but there simply is not enough room for. And then I decided to simply make a thread decidated to nothing but quotes. If anyone knows of any quotes that you would like to add then please contribute as well.
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The only reason why men run the world, is that women are too smart to want the hassle.
Our country right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other way.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent discinlination to do so.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforseeable and uncontrollable events.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
So they, the government, go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparrently overwhelming might of the enemy.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Courage is the resistance to fear, and the mastery over fear - not the absence of fear.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them, the rest of us could not succeed.
Let us so live, that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word, is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The right word may be effective (pause) but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
When we remember that we are all mad, then the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, then it is time to reform.
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except towards the things which were sacred to other people than myself.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
It takes your enemy and your friend to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get news to you. The only doubt lies in which is teller of the news.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Law is mind without reason.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
There is a fine line between what is right, and what is just. May god give me strength to always do what is right, even at the cost of being unjust.
The meaning of life is simple to explain, unfortunately you simply are not enlightened enough to hear that explanation.
If animals truly are the stupid beasts inferior to us humans that we as humans beings have arrogantly assumed, then why is it they can understand our actions and words and yet we have never quite been able to fully understand their own?
PS: Ran out of time, have to go somewhere. I'll post more later if I remember that I started this.
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The only reason why men run the world, is that women are too smart to want the hassle.
Our country right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other way.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent discinlination to do so.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforseeable and uncontrollable events.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
So they, the government, go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparrently overwhelming might of the enemy.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Courage is the resistance to fear, and the mastery over fear - not the absence of fear.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them, the rest of us could not succeed.
Let us so live, that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word, is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The right word may be effective (pause) but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
When we remember that we are all mad, then the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, then it is time to reform.
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except towards the things which were sacred to other people than myself.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
It takes your enemy and your friend to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get news to you. The only doubt lies in which is teller of the news.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Law is mind without reason.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
There is a fine line between what is right, and what is just. May god give me strength to always do what is right, even at the cost of being unjust.
The meaning of life is simple to explain, unfortunately you simply are not enlightened enough to hear that explanation.
If animals truly are the stupid beasts inferior to us humans that we as humans beings have arrogantly assumed, then why is it they can understand our actions and words and yet we have never quite been able to fully understand their own?
PS: Ran out of time, have to go somewhere. I'll post more later if I remember that I started this.
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