Into Motivation

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 ... Read More

Quotes by Fitz-Greene Halleck "None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise". Quotes by Thomas Gray "The bloom of young desire and purple light of love. Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn thoughts that breathe and words that burn". Quotes by Robert von Ranke Graves "O Love, be fed with apples while you may, And feel the sun and go in royal array, A smiling innocent on the heavenly causeway". Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith "The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the ... Read More

Quotes by Stephen Butler Leacock "I can see nothing funny in the Cockney humour. The Cockney accent seems to me one of the most debased forms of utterance. I like nearly all the forms of broken-down English - Yorkshire and Somerset accents and so on - bit no outside nation can admire the Cockney. Cockney humour invariably depends upon bad taste, cruelty, or callousness." Quotes by Walter Savage Landor "The better wit is, the more dangerous it is." Quotes by Charles Lamb "Jokes come in ... Read More

Quotes by Thomas Hardy "Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down, You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown". Quotes by William Frederic "Our ships have been salvaged and are retiring at high speed toward the Japanese fleet". Quotes by Ulysses Simpson Grant "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, ... Read More

Quotes by Hesiod "Marry in the springtime of thy life, neither much above or below the age of thirty. Thy wife should be a virgin in her nineteenth year". Quotes by Robert Herrick "He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck unto a second yoke". Quotes by Sir Alan Patrick Herbert "The critical period in matrimony is breakfast time". Quotes by Henry "If men knew how women pass the time, when they are alone, they'd never marry". Quotes by Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The ... Read More

Quotes by William Hazlitt "So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to keep me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything". Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne "Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we ... Read More

Quotes by Johann Wolfgang "A useless life is an early death". Quotes by John Gay "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it". Quotes by Jose Ortega "Life is a pretty thing unless there is pounding within it an enormous desire to extend its boundaries. We live in proportion to the extent to which we yearn to live more". Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson "Life is good only when it is magical and musical, a perfect timing and consent, ... Read More