May 18, 2010
Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed".
Quotes by Alexander Pope
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, but looks through ... Read More
May 13, 2010
Quotes by Willie Rushton
"How to give up smoking. Stop putting cigarettes in your mouth and lighting them".
Quotes by Joanne Kathleen Rowling
"Never trust something that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain!"
Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
"Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly".
Quotes by Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples".
Quotes by Alexander Pope
"Do good by ... Read More
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".
Quotes by Samuel ... Read More