Dec 26, 2010
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 ... Read More
Nov 16, 2010
Quotes by Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than on their fortunes. We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we think we are. It is a kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy".
Quotes by Jean Paul Richter
"In the child happiness dances; in the man, at most, it ... Read More
Nov 3, 2010
Quotes by Count Leo Tolstoy
"There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil".
Quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls".
Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable".
Quotes by William Shakespeare
"The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones".
Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
"Now I am weary and I can no longer tell Good ... Read More
Oct 28, 2010
Quotes by Johann Christoph
"O Joy, lovely gift of the gods, daughter of Paradise, divinity, we are inspired as we approach our sanctuary. Time consecrates; And what is grey with age becomes religion".
Quotes by Jean Paul Richter
"The Infinite has written its name on the heavens in shining stars, and on the earth in tender flowers".
Quotes by Ernest Renan
"Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. O Lord, if there is a ... Read More
Oct 24, 2010
Quotes by Alexander Pope
Wit and judgement often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man wife. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; something whose truth convinced at sight we find, that gives us back the image of our mind.
Quotes by Thomas Parnell
Wit is the Muse's horse, and bears on high .The daring rider to the Muse's sky.
Quotes by Dorothy Rothschild Parker
"Wit has truth in it ...wisecracking is simply calisthenics with ... Read More
Oct 6, 2010
Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do".
Quotes by George Santayana
"To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middle zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring".
Quotes by Victoria Mary
"Forget not the bees in winter, though they sleep, For winter's big with summer in her womb".
Quotes by William Rogers
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we ... Read More
Sep 20, 2010
Quotes by George Santayana
"Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards".
Quotes by Phillip Roth
"Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets-no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!"
Quotes by Cardinal Richelieu
"Wounds inflicted by the sword heal more easily than those inflicted by the tongue".
Quotes by Sir Ralph David ... Read More