Richard Nixon
“I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I’m not a crook.” …
Category: Quotes of the day
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. -Elbert Hubbard
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. -Elbert Hubbard
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. -George Eliot
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. -George Eliot
Frederick Farrar
Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; …
Daniel C. Gelman
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. Daniel C. Gelman quotes
Alec Guinness
I wonder whose after-dinner speeches, in history, have been most dreaded? Socrates went on and on but at least he kept his young fellow diners …
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. -Dean Acheson
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. -Dean Acheson
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself. -Seneca
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself. -Seneca
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. -John Steinbeck
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. -John Steinbeck
Why resist temptation? There will always be more. -Don Herold
Why resist temptation? There will always be more. -Don Herold
Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. -Geoffrey F. Abert
Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. -Geoffrey F. Abert
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! -Doris Lessing
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! -Doris Lessing
Vine Deloria
“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.” Vine Deloria quotes
The only source of knowledge is experience. -Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience. -Albert Einstein
Martin Bormann
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man’s life and work go on after his death, whether we feel …
Hugh Maclennan
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. Hugh Maclennan quotes
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. -William Makepeace Thackeray
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. -William Makepeace Thackeray
Emil Zatopek
“One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I …
The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. -St. Gregory The Great
The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. -St. Gregory The Great
There’s no glory like those who save their country. -Lord Alfred Tennyson
There’s no glory like those who save their country. -Lord Alfred Tennyson
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. -Richard Braunstein
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. -Richard Braunstein
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. -Marcus T. Cicero
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. -Marcus T. Cicero
The best thing in life aren’t things. -John Ruskin
The best thing in life aren’t things. -John Ruskin
Celebrate what you want to see more of. -Thomas J. Peters
Celebrate what you want to see more of. -Thomas J. Peters
C. O. Jackson
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. C. O. Jackson quotes
Mortimer J. Adler
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. Mortimer J. Adler quotes
C. S. Lewis
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is …
John R. Stott
Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God. John R. Stott quotes
AFFIANCE, pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain. -Ambrose Bierce
AFFIANCE, pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain. -Ambrose Bierce
Liberation is not deliverance. -Victor Hugo
Liberation is not deliverance. -Victor Hugo
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. -David Lloyd George
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. -David Lloyd George
free-will
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. – Cesare Pavese
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. -Napoleon Bonaparte
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. -Napoleon Bonaparte
Eaten bread is soon forgotten. -Thomas Fuller
Eaten bread is soon forgotten. -Thomas Fuller
An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. -Tom Hopkins
An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. -Tom Hopkins
We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld
George E. Mueller
A young girl was asked: Whose preaching brought you to Christ? It wasn’t anybody’s preaching; it was Aunt Mary’s practicing, he replied. The beginning of …
Duane Newcomb
The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your …
Mary Pipher
Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls …
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. -Napoleon Hill
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. -Napoleon Hill