Dec 31, 2010
Quotes by Bill Bryson
"Now Stonewall Jackson is a man worth taking an interest in. Few people in history have achieved greater fame in a shorter period with less useful activity in the brainbox than General Thomas J. Jackson".
Quotes by Jean de La Bruyere
"The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets""That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with ... Read More
Sep 21, 2010
Quotes by Edmund Burke
"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity".
Quotes by Robert Browning
"All we have gained then by our unbelief, Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess board white - we call it black. If once we choose belief, on all accounts, We can't be too decisive in our faith. ... Read More
Jul 6, 2010
Quotes by Jean de La Bruyere
"There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them...but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should".
Quotes by Robert Browning
"And that's what all the blessed evil's for".
Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
"The wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off to avoid having them ... Read More
Jun 22, 2010
Quotes by Edmund Burke
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".
Quotes by Art Buchwald
"People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope friend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him".
Quotes by Georg Buchner
"Every man's chasm. ... Read More
Apr 27, 2010
Quotes by Byron Lord George Gordon
"There comes, For ever something between us and what, We deem our happiness. Happiness was born a twin. Then the few whose spirits float above the wreck of happiness, Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess: The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain, The shore to which their shiver'd sail shall never stretch again".
Quotes by Robert Browning
"Make us happy and you make us good".
Quotes by Sir Thomas ... Read More
Apr 23, 2010
Quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth".
Quotes by Jean Cocteau
"I am a lie who always speaks the truth".
Quotes by Marcus Tullius
"If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary".
Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
"Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that man may kepe".
Quotes by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
"Truth is a never-ending agony. The truth of this world is death. One must choose - die or ... Read More
Mar 23, 2010
Quotes by Robert Burns
"I was na fou, but just had plenty. There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou o' brandy; An monie jobs that day begin, May end in houghmagandie, Some ither day. The halesome parritch, chief of Scotia's food. Freedom and whisky gang the gither! Great chieftain o' the pudding-race. Go, fetch to me a pint o' wine, And fill it in a silver tassie; That I may drink before I go. A service to my bonnie ... Read More