Mar 9, 2010
Quotes by Sir Walter Raleigh
"I f all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move, To live with thee, and be thy love. Silence in love betrays more woe, than words, though ne'er so witty! So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth".
Quotes by Jean Racine
"It is no longer a passion hidden in my veins; it is Venus' very self fastened on her prey".
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Mar 7, 2010
Quotes by Alexander Pope
"Some have at first for Wits then Poets past, Turn'd Critics next, and prov'd plain fools at last. Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine. Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. For fools admire, but men of sense approve. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. For forms of government let fools contest; What'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; He can't be wrong ... Read More
Mar 4, 2010
Quotes by Alexander Pope
"Some praise at morning what they blame at night. But always think the last opinion right. I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest".
Quotes by Pliny the Elder
"Man is the only animal that knows nothing, and can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, nor do anything at ... Read More
Feb 27, 2010
Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"When a man marries, dies or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him".
Quotes by William Shakespeare
"I count myself in nothing else so happy, As in a soul remembering my good friends. Our plot is as good a plot as ever was laid; our friends true and constant; a good plot, good friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good friends. Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing. Yet ... Read More
Feb 22, 2010
Quotes by Alexander Pope
"Go, like the Indian, in another life, Expect thy dog, thy bottle, and thy wife. Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most when she obeys. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last".
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Jan 31, 2010
Quotes by Sophocies
"Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man fares well and the man who fares badly; and thee is no prophet of the future for mortal men".
Quotes by William Shakespeare
"III blows the wind that profits nobody. One writ with me in sour misfortune's book! Not the ill wind which blows man no good. Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may ... Read More
Jan 8, 2010
Quotes by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
"Above all [Kennedy] gave the world for an imperishable moment the vision of a leader who greatly understood the terror and the hope, the diversity and the possibility, of life on this planet and who made people look beyond nation and race to the future of humanity".
Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
"It is better to be faithful than famous".
Quotes by Alexander Pope
"All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame. If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, ... Read More