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Quotes Of Eternity Time And The Seasons [2401]

esah — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:01:38 +0000

Quotes by William Somerset Maugham
“It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future”.
Quotes by Andrew Marvell
“But at my back I always hear, Time’s winged chariot drawing near; And yonder all before us lie, Deserts of vast eternity”.
Quotes by Christopher Marlowe
“Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come, O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn’d”.
Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
“Time is like a river. As soon as a thing is seen it is carried away and another takes its place, and then that other is carried away also”.
Quotes by Lucretius
The sum of all sums is eternity.
Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating, Funeral marches to the grave”.
Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
“Time! what an empty vapour ’tis! And days, how swift they are: Swift as an Indian arrow – Fly on like a shooting star; The present moment just is here, Then slides away in haste, That we can never say they’re ours, But only say they’re past”.

Quotes Of Government And Politics [1601]

esah — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:28:24 +0000

Quotes by Isaac Goldberg
“Displomacy is to do and say, The nastiest thing in the nicest way”.
Quotes by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
“When I was a lad I served a term, As office boy to an Attorney’s firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle to carefullee, That now I am the ruler of the Queen’s Navee! I always voted at my party’s call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all. Politics we bar, They are not our bent; On the whole we are, Not intelligent”.
Quotes by John Gay
“That politician tops his part, Who readily can lie with art: The man’s proficient in his trade; His power is strong, his fortunes’s made”.
Quotes by Mohandas Karamchand
“Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics, The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint”.
Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable”.
Quotes by Milton Friedman
“Governments never learn. Only people learn. The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem”.
Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
“In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at the top”.
Quotes by Charles Frankel
“Whatever happens in government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had”.

Quotes Of Government And Politics [1001]

esah — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:31:12 +0000

Quotes by Plato
“Democracy…is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a kind of quality to equals and unequals alike. The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the State. Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class”.
Quotes by William Pitt
“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail-its roof may shake – the wind may blow through it – the storm may enter – the rain may enter – but the King of Englandcannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement”.
Quotes by Wendell Phillips
“Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection, they have many friends and few enemies. Politicians are like the bones of a horse’s foreshoulder – not a straight one in it”.
Quotes by William Penn
“Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws. No system of government was ever so ill devised that, under proper men, it wouldn’t work well enough. Let the people think they govern and they will be governed”.
Quotes by Cyril Northcote Parkinson
“Men enter local politics as a result of being unhappily married”.
Quotes by Thomas Paine
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government”.
Quotes by William Tyler Page
“I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies”.

Quotes Of Fame And Greatness [3112]

esah — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:08:35 +0000

Quotes by Bill Bryson
“Now Stonewall Jackson is a man worth taking an interest in. Few people in history have achieved greater fame in a shorter period with less useful activity in the brainbox than General Thomas J. Jackson”.
Quotes by Jean de La Bruyere
“The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets”"That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred’s soon hit; This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit”.

Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“A great man, Leave clean work behind him, and requires, No sweeper up of the

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Quotes by Emily Jane Bonte
“Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn; And lust of fame was but a dream, That vanished with the morn”.
Quotes by Humphrey Bogart
“You’re not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi”.
Quotes by The Bible
“Howbeit i believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard. Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us”.
Quotes by John Barrymore
“I like to be introduced as America’s foremost actor. It saves the necessity of further effort”.

Quotes Of Government And Politics [2812]

esah — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:49:47 +0000

Quotes by James Otis
“Taxation without representation is tyranny”.
Quotes by George Orwell
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”.
Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru
“The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer”.
Quotes by Thomas Moore
“The minds of some of our own statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the strong light there is shed upon them”.
Quotes by John Stuart Mill
“The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it”.
Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard”.
Quotes by Phillip Massinger
“He that would govern others, first should be, The master of himself”.
Quotes by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
“In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property”.
Quotes by Karl Marx
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”.
Quotes by Donald Marquis
“The bees got their governmental system settled millions of years ago but the human race is still groping”.

Quotes Of Government And Politics [2612]

esah — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:01:10 +0000

Quotes by John Ruskin
“Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition, the laws of death. The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education”.
Quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau
“If there were a nation of gods they would be governed democratically, but so perfect a government is not suitable to men”.
Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it”.
Quotes by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbour”.
Quotes by William Rogers
“The more you read and observe about this politics things, the more you’ve got to admit that each party’s worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best”.
Quotes by Ronald Wilson Reagan
“I used to say that politics was the second oldest profession, and I have come to know that it bears a gross similarity to the first”.
Quotes by Sir Charles Pratt
“The British parliament has no right to tax the Americans…Taxation and representation are inseparably united. God hath joined them: no British parliament can put them asunder. To endeavour to do so is to stab our very vitals”.
Quotes by Michael Portillo
“Compassion is an essential ingredient in Conservation”.
Quotes by Alexander Pope
“Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes. The right divine of kings to govern wrong. Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere”.

Quotes Of Happiness [2412]

esah — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:32:26 +0000

Quotes by John Milton
“And feel That I am happier than I know”.
Quotes by John Stuart Mill
“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so”.
Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
“The only really people are married women and single men”.
Quotes by Karl Marx
“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion”.
Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“A long happiness loses by its mere length”.
Quotes by Rudyard Kipling
“And those that were good shall be happy: they shall sit in a golden chair; They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comet’s hair”.
Quotes by John Keats
“Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks, Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence”.
Quotes by Immanuel Kant
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”.
Quotes by Dr Samuel Johnson
“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn”.
Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident-that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He is happiest of whom the world says least, good ar bad. It is neither wealth nor splendour, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness”.

Quotes Of Good Evil And Morality [2212]

esah — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:04:27 +0000

Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
“Leave Truth to the police and us; we know the Good; We build the Perfect City time shall never alter; Our Law shall guard you always like a cirque of mountains. Your ignorance keep off evil like a dangerous sea; You shall be consummated in the General Will, Your children innocent and charming as beasts. I and the public know , What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done, Do evil in return”.
Quotes by Hannah Arendt
“The fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil”.
Quotes by St Thomas Aquinas
“Evil denotes the Absence of Good. But it is not every absence of good that is called evil. Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species”.
Quotes by Anonymous
“Do good, reap good. Do evil, reap evil”.
Quotes by Samuel Alexander
“Evil is not…wholly evil; it is misplaced good”.

Quotes Of Eternity Time And Seasons [2012]

esah — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:20:28 +0000

Quotes by Napoleon
“You may ask me for anything you like except time”.
Quotes by Christopher Morley
“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go”.
Quotes by Thomas Moore
‘Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions, Are faded and gone”.
Quotes by Wilson Mizner
“Life’s a tough proposition, and the hundred years are the hardest”.
Quotes by John Milton
“Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckl’d vanity, Wil sicken soon and die. Thus with the year, Seasons return, but not to me returns, Day or the sweet approach of ev’n or morn. With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse, Without all hope of day! Now the bright morning Star, Day’s harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her, The Flow’ry May. Time, the subtle thief of youth”.
Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“Time presupposes a view of time. It is therefore, not like a river, not a flowing substance”.
Quotes by Norman Alexander McCaig
“On shaven grass a summer’s litter lies, Of paper bags and people. One o’clock, Booms on the leaves with which the trees are quilted, And wades away through air, making it rock, On flower-beds that have blazed and dazed and wilted”.

Quotes Of Money And Wealth [1912]

esah — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:53:10 +0000

Quotes by The Bible
“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. For the love of money is the root of all evil”.
Quotes by Jack Benny
“I don’t want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go”.
Quotes by Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc
“I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time”.
Quotes by Edward Bellamy
“An American credit card…is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be”.
Quotes by Aphra Behn
“Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand”.
Quotes by Maurice Baring
“If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it”.
Quotes by Walter Bagehot
“Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell”.
Quotes by Francis Bacon
“And money is like muck, not good except it be spread. Riches are for spending. Of great riches, there is no real use, except it be in distribution; the rest is but conceit”.
Quotes by Jane Austen
“An annuity ia a very serious business; it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it”.

Quotes Of Good Evil And Morality [1412]

esah — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:42:30 +0000

Quotes by Thomas Kempis
“Of the two evils, the lesser is always to be chosen”.
Quotes by Immanuel Kant
“There is no possibility of thinking of anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be regarded as good without qualification, except a good will. We do not need science and philosophy to know what we should do to be honest and good, yea, even wise and virtuous”.
Quotes by Franz Kafka
“When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil…Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue…One cannot pay Evil in instalments – and one always keeps on trying to”.
Quotes by Carl Gustav Jung
“Man’s psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil”.
Quotes by Aldous Huxley
“Good is that which makes for unity; Evil is that which makes for separateness”.
Quotes by David Hume
“Good and ill, both natural and moral, are entirely relative to human sentiment and affection”.
Quotes by Thomas Hood
“But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart!”
Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
“In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and not by their mediocrity, nor by their being commended. For several men praise several customs, and, contrarily, what one calls vice, another calls virtue, as their present affections lead them”.
Quotes by Grahame Greene
“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered”.
Quotes by Paul Gaugin
“Virtue, good and evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them”.

Quotes Of God And Religion [1312]

esah — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:01:29 +0000

Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
“Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. A belief is not true because it is useful”.
Quotes by Woody Allen
“How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?”
Quotes by Cecil Frances Alexander
“All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all”.
Quotes by Joseph Addison
“The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, and spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim”.
Quotes by Sarah Flower Adams
“Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E’en though it be a cross, That raiseth me”.
Quotes by Abdallah Ibn Tumart
“Time does not contain Him, nor space hold Him. No intelligence can grasp Him, nor imagination figure Him. Nothing is like Him. But still He hears and sees all things’.