Aug 15, 2010
Quotes by Thomas Woodrow Wilson
"It must be a peace without victory. Only a peace between equals can last: only a peace, the very principle of which is eqality, and a common participation in a common benefit".
Quotes by Gary Wills
"Only the winners decide what were war crimes".
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular".
Quotes by Elie Weisel
"Close your eyes and ... Read More
Aug 1, 2010
Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready".
Quotes by Paul Theroux
"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Extensive travelling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind".
Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Sunset and evening star, Are one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea".
Quotes by John Taylor
"He that ... Read More
Jul 10, 2010
Quotes by Ludwig Joseph Johann Wittgenstein
"Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it."
Quotes by George Wither
"And I oft have heard defended. Little said is soonest mended."
Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
"For of all the sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: " It might have been!"
Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
"Language is incomplete and fragmentary, and merely registers a stage in the average advance beyond ape-mentality. But all men enjoy flashes of insight ... Read More
Jul 9, 2010
Quotes by Margaret Hilda
"I could combine being a good mother with being an effective professional woman, as long as I organized everything intelligently down to the last detail. We have become a grandmother".
Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
"This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Remember, it's as easy to marry whom she likes. Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman". ... Read More
Jun 18, 2010
Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry - every man of every nation has done that - 'tis the living up to it that is difficult".
Quotes by Tertullian
"One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion".
Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. There lives more faith in ... Read More
May 8, 2010
Quotes by Herbert George Wells
"I don't 'old with Wealth. What is Wealth? Labour robbed out of the poor".
Quotes by George Washington
"It is not a custom with me to keep money to look at".
Quotes by Artemus Ward
"Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with".
Quotes by Virgil or Vergil
"Auri sacra fames. (Accursed hunger for gold)".
Quotes by Mark Twain
"Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's , I ... Read More
Mar 8, 2010
Quotes by Edmund Waller
"To man, that was in the evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light".
Quotes by Voltaire
"Men argue, nature acts. Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills".
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