Tuesday, December 11, 2007

QuOtEs!!!!

The Following is a list of Quotes which I've read n liked....

1.If a man is worth knowing at all,he is worth knowing completely
-Alexander Smith

2.We always love those who admire us,and we donot always love whom we admire
-La Rochefoucauld

3.An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
-Cato

4. Many can argue, not many converse.
-Alcott

5. Wise men argue causes, fools discuss them.
-Anarcharsis

6. A picture is a poem without words.
-Horace

7. The pen is the tongue of the mind
-Cervantes

8. There is no cosmetic for a beauty like happiness
-Lady Blessington

9. A thing of beauty is joy forever
-Keats

10. Men willingly believe what they wish
-Julius Caesar

11. Biography is the true history
-Carlyle

12. Blessings never come in pairs, misfortunes never come alone
-Chinese Proverb

13. A cheerful look makes a dish a feast
-Herbert

14. Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius
-H.W Shaw

15. ‘Tis always morning somewhere in the world
-Richard Hengest

16. The prickly thorn often bears soft roses
-Ovid

17. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary
Expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in
Statesmanship
-Lowell

18. To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it
-Syrus

19. The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have on others
-La Rochefoucauld

20. Self-conquest is the greatest of victories
-Plato

21. Conscience is the only incorruptible thing about us.
-Fielding

22. There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience
-French proverb

23. Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as a judge
-Lamennais

24. Conscience is the soft whispers of God in man
-Young

25. Enjoy your life without comparing it with that of another.
-Condorcet

26. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius
-Gibbon

27. The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
-Tacitus

28. Fortune and Love befriends the bold.
-Ovid

29. The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble them.
-Bovee

30. Whoever profits by a crime is guilty of it.
-Buckle

31. Critics are the ones who have failed in Literature and Art
-Disraeli

32. I had rather be hissed for a good verse rather than applauded for a bad one.
-Victor Hugo

33. All cruelty springs from weakness
-Seneca

34. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man
-Bacon

35. Danger for danger’s sake is senseless
-Leigh Hunt

36. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward is during the time, and a courageous person is afterwards
-Jean Paul Richter

37. It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
-Thomas Fuller

38. Call no man happy till he is dead.
-Aeschylus

39. Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
-Charles Frohman

40. Is death the last sleep? No, it’s the last final awakening -Scott

41. We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
-Goethe

42. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
-Chesterfield

43. He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken
-La Rochefoucauld

44. There are two tragedies in life.One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
-George Bernard

45. The three things most difficult are-To keep a good secret, to forget an injure and to make good use of leisure.
-Chilo

46. Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air.
-Schiller

47. No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
-J.G.Holland

48. Oh, the saddest of the sights in a world of sin
Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in!
-Arthur Guiterman [The Little Lost Pup]

49. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education
-Emerson

50. If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him
-Franklin

51. Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
-Bryant

52. It is better to be envied than pitied.
-Herodotus

53. To stumble twice against the same stone is proverbial disgrace.
-Cicero

54. Error will slip through the crack, while truth will stick in the doorway.
-H.W.Shaw

55. One thorn of experience is a worth a whole wilderness of warning.
-Lowell

56. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less
-Nicholas Murray

57. Love is strong as Death, Jealousy is cruel as the grave
-Song Of Solomon VIII. 6

58. Good luck is a lazy man’s estimate of a worker’s success
-Anonymous

59. God heals and the doctor takes the fee
-Franklin

60. Hurried and worried until we’re buried, and there’s no curtain call,
Life’s a very funny proposition after all
-George M. Cohan


2 comments:

prashant said...

dude....nic idea.....gud collections.....hope to c some more!!!!

Meenakshi Janga said...

I agree too. Good collections.Already chosen my fav. quotes.Theres a whole lot of quotes to choose from.
:)