Quotes For You

  Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. - Bertrand Russell Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. - Walt Whitman Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - Suzanne Necker Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Sallust Fortune favors the brave. - Virgil, Aeneid We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is better to know some of the quest...

  I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. - John F. Kennedy The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. - William Shakespeare Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth. - Will Rogers Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. - Dwight D. Eisenhower I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. - Laurence J. Peter It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, the...

  Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. - Walt Whitman Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. - J. S. Bryan Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - Suzanne Necker Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. - Publilius Syrus Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Sallust Fortune favours the bold. – Virgil Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets preparation. – Seneca Fortune is like glass — the brighter it shines, the more easily it is broken. – Publilius Syrus READ MORE  

  We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Henry David Thoreau Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness. - Norman Vincent Peale In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936 I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791 We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. - Thomas Paine, The Crisis, no. 4, September 11, 1777 Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty n...

  Image: ChatGPT When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. - Sir Winston Churchill Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour. - Edward M. Kennedy I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. - Charles de Gaulle Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. - Baltasar Gracian Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal. - Oscar Wilde Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. - Laurence J. Peter A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Tact is the ability to describe other...

  We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. - Noel Coward Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts" Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. - Cicero Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. - Thomas Paine Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell READ MORE