A Few Of My Favorite Quotes
Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers. Into one beautiful perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day. - Edwin Arnold
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like a genius, she is ignorant of what she does. - Jeanette Winterson
Man can do nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny then the one he forges for himself on this earth. - Jean-Paul Sartre
In love, one and one are one. - Jean-Paul Sartre
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be King
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J.R.R Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. - J.R.R Tolkien
Whoever wins, our battle does not end. The loser is freed from the battlefield, but the winner must remain there. And the survivor must live his life as a warrior until he dies. - Big Boss, Metal Gear, Last words to Solid Snake
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. - Cicero
To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches. - Cicero
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. - Cicero
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. - Cicero
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. - Caesar Augustus
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. - Caesar Augustus
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. - Julius Caesar
Veni, vidi, vici.
[I came, I saw, I conquered] - Julius Caesar
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. - Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. - Neil Armstrong
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. - Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. - Aristotle
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. - Aristotle
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. - Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. - Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. - Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. - Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. - Aristotle
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. - Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. - Aristotle
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. - Aristotle
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. - Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids - Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. - Aristotle
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. - Aristotle
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever....Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect foodness or virtue. - Aristotle
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. - Aristotle
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. - Plato
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato
They certainly give very strange names to diseases. - Plato
The life which is unexamined is not worth living. - Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. - Plato
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. - Plato
Mankind answers injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing to it. - Plato
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. - Plato
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. - Plato
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. - Plato
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. - Plato
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. - Plato
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. - Plato
Death is not the worst than can happen to men. - Plato
Necessity, who is the mother of invention. - Plato
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. - Plato
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. - Plato
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat. - Plato
We are twice armed if we fight with faith. - Plato
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. - Plato
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. - Plato
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form. - Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
Courage is knowing what not to fear. - Plato
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. - Plato
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. - Plato
Science is nothing but perception. - Plato
Only the dead have seen the end of war. - Plato
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. - Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. - Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul. - Socrates
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. - Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing, And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all, As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. - Socrates
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates
To find yourself, think for yourself. - Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways --I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), Quoted in: Plato's Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one. - Abraham Lincoln
It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.
George Washington (1732 - 1799), last words, 14 December 1799
I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson. - George Washington
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. - George Washington
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love,
The second is frugality,
And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.
Because of deep love, one is courageous.
Because of frugality, one is generous.
Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world. - Lao-tzu
He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know. - Lao-tzu
He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened. - Lao-tzu
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao-tzu
The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao. - Lao-tzu
The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be. - Lao-tzu
If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. - Sun-Tzu
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. - Sun-Tzu
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. - Sun-tzu
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep:
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - William Shakespeare
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -
William Shakespeare
O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! - William Shakespeare
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man. - William Shakespeare
The sands are number'd that make up my life. - William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. - William Shakespeare
In a false quarrel there is no true valour. - William Shakespeare
I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again. - William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. - William Shakespeare
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done. - William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts... - William Shakespeare
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain. - William Shakespeare
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. - Jeannette Rankin
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 keep moving. - Ulysses S. Grant
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Tse-Tung
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Gandhi
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mill
