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:
dude....nic idea.....gud collections.....hope to c some more!!!!
I agree too. Good collections.Already chosen my fav. quotes.Theres a whole lot of quotes to choose from.
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