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Other QuotesSeneca"He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad." Cicero "Wisdom is the knowledge of things human and divine and the causes by which those things are controlled" Aeschylus "This is the mark of men just and wise as well even in calamity not to cherish anger against the gods" Samuel Butler "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." Julius Caesar "Men willingly believe what they wish." Arthur Calwell "It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." Miguel de Cervantes "A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." Charles Caleb Colton "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." Publilius Syrus "Practice is the best of all instructors." Cyril Connolly "The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet." Laurence Coughlin "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence." Desiderius Erasmus "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it." Robert E. Lee "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it." Robert Frost "A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain." "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." Heraclitus "There is nothing permanent except change." Jonathan Swift "There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy." Herodotus "Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks." Pittacus "The measure of a man is what he does with power. (Compare with Abraham Lincoln's first quotation) Alfred Hitchcock "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out" Oliver Wendell Holmes "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." (Compare with Socrates's 'Know Thyself') Henrik Ibsen "The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone." Aaron Levenstein "Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." John Locke "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." Wilson Mizner "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." "Gambling, The sure way of getting nothing for something." Hannah More "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." Napoleon "A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." Harry S Truman "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." Mark Twain "Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to." Oscar Wilde "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." William Butler Yeats "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." George Jean Nathan "Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." Emiliano Zapata "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Vince Lombardi "Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win." "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour." Benjamin Franklin "Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn to do things in the right way" "When you are good to others you are best to yourself" "Never leave until tomorrow what you can do today" Derek Bok "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" Calvin Coolidge "No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave." Michel de Montaigne "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories" Eric Hoffer "Rudeness is a weak man's imagination of strength." Cyrus Ching "I learned a long time ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides, the pig likes it." Eleanor Roosevelt "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission" |