Newspaper Quotes

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water closet doormat.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English novelist.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention.
Henry David Thorean (1817-1862) American writer.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
H.L.Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist.

Possible? Is anything possible? Read the newspapers.
Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) British soldier, statesman.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

We welcome almost any break in the monotony of things, and a man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.
Robert Lynd (1879-1949) Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) Englsih essayist, critic.

The mission of a modern newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and affect the comfortable.
Anonymous.

Headlines twice the size of the events.
John Galsworthy (1867-1933) English author.

Journalism consists largely in saying “Lord Jones Dead” to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives, but is trying to find out.
Ed(E.W.Howe) (1853-1937) American journalist, novelist.

Whenever people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) American president.

we live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Neither in what it gives, not in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French Philosopher, author.

Reading someone else’s newspaper is like sleeping with someone else’s wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.
Malcolm Bradbury (b.1932) British author.

A newspaper is the history for one day of the world in which we live, and with which we are consequently more concerned that with those which have passed away, and exist only in remembrance.
Bp.Horne.

I read the newspapers to see how God governs the world.
John Newton.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment,
Cobden.

Newspapers are the schoolmaster of the common people a greater treasure to them than uncounted millions of gold.
H.W.Beecher.

The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year than most scholars do in their great libraries.
F.B.Sanborn.

Newspapers are the world’s cyclopedia of life; telling us everything from every quarter of the globe. They are a universal whispering gallery for mankind, only their whispers are sometimes thunders.
Tryon Edwards.

Newspapers should be news carriers, not news makers. There is truth and entertainment enough to print, without fiction or falsehood, and to publish the latter is to betray the former.
C.Simmons.

The press is good or evil according to the character of those who direct it. It is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.
Bryant.

Nature Quotes

Anyone who has got any pleasure at all from nature should try to put something back. Life is like a superlative meal and the world is the maitre d’hotel. What I am doing is the equivalent of leaving a reasonable tip.
Gerald Durrell (b.1925) British conservationist, author.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.
R.G.Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer.

However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

One impulse from a vernal wood may teach you more of man, of moral evil and of good, than all the ages can.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English Poet.

It is false dichotomy to think of nature and man. Mankind is that factor in nature which exhibits in its most intense form the plasticity of nature.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) British philosopher.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)

To be nature is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish author.

Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God.
Cowper.

Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.
Pascal.

Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a copy vitiation to follow her to the stars.
E.P.Whipple.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.
Coleridge.

Nature and revelation are alike God’s books; each may have mysteries, but in each there are plain practical lessons for every day duty.
Tryon Edwards.

The man who can really, in living union of the mind and heart, converse with God through nature, finds in the material forms around him, a source of power and happiness inexhaustible, and like the life of angels. The highest life and glory of man is to be alive unto God; and when this grandeur of sensibility to him, and this power of communion with him is carried, as the habit of the soul, into the forms of nature, then the walls of our world are as the gates of heaven.
G.B. Cheever.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Goethe.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth; nature is Christian, preaches to mankind, and bids dead matter aid us in our creed.
Young.

Sympathy with nature is a part of the good man’s religion.
F.H.Hedge.

Looks through nature up to nature’s God.
Pope.

Study nature as the countenance of God.
Charles Kingsley.

Hill and valley seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to, and answered by the living soul of man.
E.H.Chapin.

There is a signature of wisdom and power impressed on the works of God, which evidently distinguishes them from the feeble imitations of men. Not only the splendor of the sun, but the glimmering light of the glowworm, proclaims his glory.
John Newton.

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature please, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize I it an Infinite power.
W.Humboldt.

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the right, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
Goethe.

National Quotes

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
John Milton (1608-1674) English Poet.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the match of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country thus far shalt thou go and no farther.
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) Irish nationalist politician.

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) German dictator; Mein Kampf.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To male a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick their areas. That is what I shall do.
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Colonel Muhammar (b.1938) Libyan leader.

After fifteen year of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical will power, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

The crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilization is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

A sate to prosper, must be built on foundations of a moral character; and this character is the principal element of its strength and the only guaranty of its permanence and prosperity.
J.Currie.

Individuals may from communities. But it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Disraeli.

The best protection of a nation is its men; towns and cities cannot have a surer defense than the prowess and virtue of their inhabitants.
Rabelais.

It is written in God’s word, and in all the history of the race, that nations, if they live at all, live not by felicity of position, or soil, or climate, and not by abundance of material good, but by the living word of the living God. The commandments of God are the bread of life for the nations.
R.D.Hitchcock.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
Garfield.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
J.G.Holland.

In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the middle age, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age, mechanical arts and merchandise.
Bacon.

A nation’s character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation’s inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.
Henry Clay.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
S.Smiles.

The true grandeur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the true greatness of the individual.
C.Sumner.

As for the just and noble idea, that nations, as well as individuals, are parts of one wondrous whole, it has hardly passed the lips or pen of any but religious men and poets. It is the one great principle of the greatest religion which has ever nourished the morals of mankind.
Harriet Martineau.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway

Names Quotes

A name is a kind if face whereby one is known.
Fuller.

With the vulgar and the learned, names have great weight; the wise use a writ of inquiry into their legitimacy when they are advanced as authorities.
Zimmermann.

Who hath not owned, with rapture smitten frame, the power of grace, the magic of a name.
Cowper.

Favor or disappointment has been often conceded, as the name of the claimant has affected us; and the accidental affinity or coincidence of a name, connected with ridicule or hatred, with pleasure or disgust, has operated like magic.
Disraeil.

“Names” says an old maxim, “are things”. They certainly are influences, Impressions are left and opinions are shaped by them. Virtue is disparaged, and vice countenanced, and so encouraged by them. The mean and selfish talk of their prudence and economy; the vain and proud prate about self-respect; obstinacy is called firmness, and dissipation the enjoyment of life; seriousness is ridiculed as cant, and strict morality and integrity, as needless scrupulosity, and so men deceive themselves, and society is led to look leniently, or with indifference, on what ought to be sharply condemned.
Tryon Edwards.

Some to the fascination of a name surrender judgment hoodwinked.
Cowper.

What is in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.
Shakespeare.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves; and perhaps that is the reason of it.
Penn.

A person with a bad name is already half-hanged.
Old Proverb.

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.
Pascal.

A virtuous name is the precious, only good, for which queens and peasants’ wives must contest together.
Schiller.

A man’s name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.
Goethe.

Good name, in man or woman, is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse steals trash; but he that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed.
Shakespeare.

The honors of a name “tis just to guard; they are a trust but lent us, which we take, and should, in reverence to the donor’s fame, with care transmit them down to other hands.
Shirley.

Great names debase, instead of raising those who know not how to use them.
Rochefoucauld.

A name truly good is the aroma from virtuous character; it is a spontaneous emanation from genuine excellence. Such a name is not only remembered on earthy, but it is written in heaven.
J.Hamilton.

A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
J.Haves.

No better heritage can a father bequeath to his children than a good name; nor is there in a family any richer heir loom than the memory of a noble ancestor.
J.Hamilton.

I have fallen in love with American names,
The sharp names that never get fat,
The snakeskin titles of mining claims,
The plumed war bonnet of Medicine Hat,
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

He left a name, at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral or adorn a tale.

My name is Legion; for we are many.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

Prayer Quotes

Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: “Great God, grant that twice two be not four.”
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Russian author.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) English churchman, writer.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

If you want to make a man very angry, get someone to pray for him.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher.

The Lord’s Prayer contains the sun total of religion and morals.
Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) English soldier, statesman.


The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that, he can sleep.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
John Donne (1572-1631) English metaphysical poet.

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
Bunyan.

Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of his highest Willingness.
Trench.

The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.
Jeremy Taylor.

Heaven is never deaf but when man’s heart is dumb.
Quarlse.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo.

Let not him who prays, suffer his tongue to outstrip his heart; not presume to carry a message to the throne of grace, while that stays behind.
South.

Every good and holy desire, though it lack the form, hath in itself the substance and force of a prayer with God, who regardeth the very moanings, groans, and sighings of the heart.
Hooker.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
H.More.

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
A.Maclaren.

I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat the Lord’s prayer.
John Randolph.

I know no blessing so small as to be reasonably expected without prayer, not any so great but may be attained by it.
South.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
Phillips Brooks.

Holy, humble, penitent, believing, earnest, persevering prayer is never lost; it always prevails to the accomplishment of the thing sought, or that with which the suppliant will be better satisfied in the end, according to the superior wisdom of his heavenly father, in which he trusts.
Weeks.

Popularity Quotes

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.
Popularity? It’s glory’s small change.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist, novelist.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they fo not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
Epicurus (341-270 BC) Greek philosopher.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
Lord Halifax (1796-1865)

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas’d he could whistle them back.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Carlyle.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.
Mackintosh.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Penn.

A popular man soon becomes more powerful than power itself.

The great secrets of being courted, are, to shun others and to seem delighted with yourself.
Bulwer.

A generous nation is grateful even for the preservative of its rights, and willingly extends the respect due to the office of a good prince into an affection for his Person.
Junius.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Kant.

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
Lord Mansfield.

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken, if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.
Montaigne.

Applause waits on success; the fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the stream, glides with the current still, and follows fortune.
Franklin.

Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both; the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; avoid the second, be not seditious.
Quarles.

Those who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men, or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.
Greville.

I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
Goethe.

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
Colton.

A habitation giddy and unsure hath he that buildeth of the vulgar heart.
Shakespeare.

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest, but the most fanatical leaders; as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.
Lamartine.

The common people are but ill judges of a man’s merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
Horace.

Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic; the other is effaced like a crayon drawing.
Boufflers.

Money Quotes

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1824) Anglo-American essayist.

Ready money is Aladdin’s lamp.
Lord Farquhar (1678-1824) English poet.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
George Farquhar (1678-1707) Irish dramatist.

Money is a singular thing. it ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Money differs from an automobile, a mistress or cancer in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
John Kenneth Galbraith (b.1908) American economist.

If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
W.Somerset Maugham (18741966) British author.

They who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money.

The want of money is the root of all evil.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Anthony Burgess (b.1917) British author.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen (b.1935) American filmmaker.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Horace.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
O.W.Holmes.

Money is a good servant, but a poor master.
D.Bouhours.

A wise man should have money in his head, not in his heart.
Swift.

Make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Fielding.

All love has something of blindness in it, but the love of money especially.
South.

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law abiding community, than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
Emerson.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Bacon.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, if doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, reply upon it; “Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith”.
Franklin.

By doing good with money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.
J.Rutledge.

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
J.Wesley.

Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.
R.D.Hitchcock.

When money represents so many things, not to love it would be to love nearly nothing. To forget true needs can by only a weak moderation; but to know the value of money and to sacrifice it always, maybe to duty, maybe even to delicacy, that is real virtue.
Senancour.

The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep.
Henry Taylor.

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.
Shakespeare.

Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
Johnson.

Music Quotes

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

The still, sad music of humanity.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English Poet.

Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies?

Hearing in the distance Two mandolins like creatures in the dark creating the agony of ecstasy.

Difficult do you call it, sir? I wish it were impossible.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the sense, then it has missed its point.

Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) French composer.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French writer, film director.

The good composer is slowly discovered, the bad composer is slowly found out.

Sir Ernest Newman (1868-1959) British musicologist.

I know only two tunes; one of them is “Yankee Doodle” and the other isn’t.

Ulysses S.Grant (1822-1885) American president.

Canned music is like audible wall paper .

Alistair Cooke (b.1908) British journalist, broadcaster.

I do not see any good reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.

Hell is full of musical amateurs; music is the brandy of the damned.

The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

There is something suspicious about music, gentleman. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which. Like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

Beethoven.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world; one note of the divine concord which the entire universe is destined one day to sound.

Mazzini.

There is something marvelous in music. I might almost say it is, in itself, a marvel. Its position is somewhere between the region of thought and that of phenomena; a glimmering medium between mind and matter, related to both and yet differing from either; Spiritual, and yet requiring rhythm; material, and yet independent of space.

H.Heine.

Music resembles poetry; in each are numerous graces which no methods teach, and which a master hand alone can reach.

Pope.

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

Tuckerman.

All musical people seem to be happy; it is to them the engrossing pursuit; almost the only innocent and unpunished passion.

Sydney Smith.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Mrs.Stowe.

Music can noble hints impart, engender fury, kindle love, with unsuspected eloquence can move and manage all the man with secret art.

Addison.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

Goethe.

The man that hath not music in himself, and is not moved with concord of sweat sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; let no man trust him.

Shakespeare.

Moderation Quotes

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Joseph Hall (1574-1656) Bishop of Norwich.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry Kissinger (b.1923) American adviser on international affairs.

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the rav-isher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
Prince Mettenich (1773-1859) Austrian statesman.

Moderation in people who are contented comes from the calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

My God, Mr Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Cicero.

Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content; has learned the science of being happy; and possesses the alchemic stone which changes every metal into gold.
T.Dwight.

It is certainly a very important lesson, to learn how to enjoy ordinary things, and to be able to relish your being, without the transport of some passion, or the gratification of some appetite.
Steele.

There is a German proverb which says that “Take it easy” and “Live long,” are brothers.
Bovee.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
Shakespeare.

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self acquaintance.
Lord Chatham.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
Cicero.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. So far from greatness consisting in going beyond its limits, it really consists in keeping within them.
Pascal.

I knew a wise man who had for a byword, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, “stay a little that we may come to the end sooner.”
Bacon.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Colton.

Howsoever varied the course of our life, whatsoever the phase of pleasure and ambition through which it has swept along, still, when in memory we would revive the times that were comparatively the happiest, those times will be found to have been the calmest.
Bulwer.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest. We are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys.
Bovee.

I will not be a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the most heavy of all servitudes; and this end I may gain by moderate desires.
Seneca.

The true boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale, our guardian angel quits his charge of us.
Feltham.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Bp.Hall.

Moderation must not claim the merit of combating and conquering ambition; for they can never exist in the same subject. Moderation is the languor and sloth of the soul; ambition its activity and ardor.
Rochefoucauld.

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
Richter.

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
Livy.

Mistake Quotes

Any man may make a mistake, but none but a fool will continue in it.

Cicero.

No man every became great a good except through many and great mistakes.

Gladstone.

When you make a mistake don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White.

The only people who make no mistakes are dead people. I saw a man last week who has not made a mistake for four thousand years. He was a mummy in the Egyptian department of the British Museum.

H.L.Wayland.

It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Bovee.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

S.Smiles.

Show us the man who never makes a mistake and we will show a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering Is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

H.L.Wayland.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistake and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Tryon Edwards.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the world see them to be in downright nonsense.

Swift.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Rochefoucauld.

The providence that watches over the affairs of men, works out their mistakes, at times, to a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

Froude.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness; and the old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Colton.

Exemption from mistake is not the privilege of mortals; but when our mistakes are involuntary, we owe each other every candid consideration; and the man who, on discovering his errors, acknowledges and corrects them, is scarcely less entitled to our esteem than if he had not erred.

J.Pye Smith.

Earth bears no balsam for mistakes;
Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool
That did his will; but thou, O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool.

Yes, Once many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life, are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.

Mind Quotes

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.
Cicero.

We may doubt the existence of matter, if we please, and like Berkeley deny it, without subjecting ourselves to the shame of a very conclusive confutation. But there is this remarkable difference between matter and mind, that he that doubts the existence of mind, by doubting proves it.
Colton.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of him who made it.
Burke.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
Rousseau.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
Buffoon.

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
Sir J.Reynolds.

As the fire fly only shines when on the wing, so it is with the human mind when at rest, it darkness.
L.E.Landon.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined, as the richest jewels are soonest found to wear their settings.
Goldsmith.

A perfectly just and sound mind is a rare and invaluable gift. But it is still more unusual to see such a mind unbiased in all its acting. God has given this soundness of mind but to few; and a very small number of these few escape the bias of some predilection perhaps habitually operating; and none are at all times perfectly free. An exquisite watch went irregularly, though no defect could be discovered in it. At last it was found that the balance wheel had been near a magnet; and here was all the mischief. If the soundest mind be magnetized by any predilection, it must act irregularly.
Cecil.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged to do the more we are able to accomplish.
Tryon Edwards.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
Pope.

What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to land, that thinking, reflecting, examining is to the mind. Each has its proper culture; and as the land that is suffered to lie waste and wild for a long time will be overspread with brushwood, brambles, and thorns, which have neither use for nor beauty, so there will not fail to sprout up in a neglected, uncultivated mind, a great number of prejudices and absurd opinions, which owe their origin partly to the soil itself, the passions, and imperfections of the mind of man, and partly to those seeds which chance to be scattered in it by every wind of doctrine which the cunning of statesmen, the singularity of pedants, and the superstition of fools shall raise.
Berkeley.

Knowledge, wisdom, erudition, arts, and elegance, what are they, but the mere trappings of the mind, if they do not serve to increase the happiness of the possessor? A mind rightly instituted in the school of philosophy, acquires at once the stability of the oak, and the flexibility of the osier.
Goldsmith.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when the one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Chesterfield.

A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
Novalis.

Prepare yourselves for the great world, as the athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do, as young people are too apt to think.
Chesterfield.

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
Fontenelle.

Memory Quotes

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Edward de beno (b.1933) British author.

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English Physician, author.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goest by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983) American playwright.

Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German Philosopher.

But each day brings its petty dust Our soon chok’d souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English Poet, critic.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge.
Cicero.

The memory is a treasurer to whom we must give funds, if we would draw the assistance we need.
Rowe.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in their judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Fuller.

It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all time; in the widespreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found stamped on the laws of nature by the indelible seal of the Almighty’s will.
Cooper.

That memory is the book of judgment, from some opium experiences of mine, I can believe. I have, indeed, seen the same thing asserted in modern books, and accompanied by a remark which I am convinced is true, namely; that the dread book of account, which the Scriptures speak of is, in fact, the mind itself of each individual. Of this, at least, I feel assured that there is no such thing as forgetting, possible to the mind; a thousand accidents may and will interpose a veil between our present consciousness and the secret inscriptions on the mind; accidents of the same sort will also rend away this veil; but whether veiled or unveiled, the inscription remains forever; just as the stars seem to withdraw before the common light of day; whereas, in fact, we all know that it is the light which is drawn over them as a veil, and that they are waiting to be revealed, when the obscuring daylight shall have withdrawn.
De Quincey.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Tryon Edwards.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
Johnson.

No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.
G.Macdonald.

Joy’s recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow’s memory is sorrow still.

Every one complains of his memory; nobody of his judgment.
Rochfoucauld.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Johnson.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Tupper.

O, memory, thou bitter sweet both a joy and a scourge.
Mad. De.Stael.

If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
Bonstetten.

Memory, the daughter of attention, is the teeming mother of knowledge.
Tupper.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Fuller.

Morale Quotes

Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it. Can’t be done.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

We are told by moralists with the plainest faces that immorality will spoil our looks.
Grub first, then morality.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene (b.1904) British novelist.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that ninety – nine percent of them are wrong.

H.L.Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist.

The nation’s morals are like its teeth; the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) English historian.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American author.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire.

The morality which is divorced from godliness, however specious and captivating to the eye, is superficial and deceptive. The only morality that is clear in its source, pure in its precepts, and efficacious in its influence, is the morality of the gospel. All else is, at best, but idolatry the worship of something of man’s own creation; and that imperfect and feeble, like himself, and wholly insufficient to give him support and strength.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Tryon Edwards.

Some would divorce morality from religion; but religion is the root without which morality would die.

C.A.Bartol.

They talk of morals, O, thou bleeding lamb! The grand morality is love to thee!.

Young.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Longfellow

The Christian religion is the only one that puts morality on its proper, and the right basis, viz: the fear and love of God.

Johnson.

In the long run, morals without religion, will wither and die like seed sown upon stony ground, or among thorns.

The highest morality, if not inspired and vitalized by religion, is but as the marble statue, or the silent corpse, to the living and perfect man.

S.I.Prime.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

Horace Bushnell.

Medicine Quotes

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719) English Physician, poet.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Napoleon Bonaparte (17169-1821) Emperor of France.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Sir William Osier (1849-1919) Canadian physician.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author.

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin Henry Fischer (1879-1962)

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa slightly off balance.
Charles, Prince of Wales (b.1948)

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
Addison.

Medicine has been defined to be the art or science of amusing a sick man with frivolous speculations about his disorder, and of tampering ingeniously, till nature either kills or cures him.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, nature.
Jeffrey.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to turn the curious harp of man’s body.
Bacon.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.
Montaigne.

The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.
Franklin.

We seem ambitious God’s whole work to undo. With new diseases on ourselves we war, and with new physic, a worse engine far.
Donne.

Doctor, no medicine. We are machines made to live organized expressly for that purpose. Such is our nature. Do not counteract the living principle. Leave it at liberty to defend itself, and it will do better than your drugs.
Napoleon.

Over the door of a liberty in Thebes is the inscription, “ Medicine for the soul.”
Diodorus Siculus.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Meanness Quotes

Meanness is more in half doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author.

Mere parsimony is not economy… Expense and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman.

There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) American novelist, poet, critic.

There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means the exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavors. The original stock, or wild olive tree of our natural powers, was not given us to be burnt or blighted but to be grafted on.

The end must justify the means.
Prior.

We put things in order; God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south, and it is.
Horace Mann.

The means heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would nad we will not; heaven’s offer we refuse.
Shakespeare.

Mahomet hearing one of his soldiers say, “I will turn my camel loose and trust him to God,” said to him, “Tie your camel, and then trust him to God.” And Cromwell’s charge to his soldiers, on the eve of battle, was. “ Trust in Providence, but keep your powder dry.”

Means without God cannot help, God without means can, and often doth. I will use good means, but not rest in them.
Bp. Hall.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!.
Shakespeare.

Some men possess means that are great, but fritter them away in the execution of conceptions that are little others, who can form great conceptions, attempt to carry them into execution with little means. These two descriptions of men might succeed if united, but kept asunder, both fail. It is a rare thing to find a combination of great means and of great conceptions in one mind,
Colton.

All outward means if grace, if separate from the sprit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he work in them and by them, are in vain.
John Wesley.

Superior men, and yet not always virtuous, there have been; but there never has been a mean man, and at the same time virtuous.
Confucius.

Whoever is mean in his youth runs a great risk of becoming a scoundrel in riper years; meanness leads to villainy with fatal attraction.
V.Cherbuliez.

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality.
Sterne.

I have great hope of a wicked man; slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
H.W.Beecher.

To dally much with subjects mean and low, proves that the mind is weak or makes it so.
Cowper.

Mathematics Quotes

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.

Joseph Marie de Maistre (1753-1821) French author.

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

Feodor Dostoievski (1821-1881) Russian novelist.

Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German American theoretical physicist.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Fran Lebowitz (b.1951) American journalist.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

I could never make out what those damned dots meant.

Pure mathematics do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties of individuals; for if the wit be dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it.

Bacon.

The study of the mathematics is like climbing up a steep and craggy mountain; when once you reach the top, it fully recompenses your trouble, by opening affine, clear, and extensive prospect.

The study of mathematics cultivates the reason; that of the languages, at the same time, the reason and the taste. The former gives grasp and power to the mind; the later both power and flexibility, the former, by itself, would prepare us for a state of certainties, which nowhere exists; the latter, for a state of probabilities, which is that of common life. Each, by itself, does but an imperfect work; in the union of both, is the best discipline for the mind, and the best mental training for the world as it is.

Tryon Edwards.

If a man’s wits by wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away ever so little, he must begin again.

Johnson.

Martyrdom Quotes

If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Martin Luther King (1929-1968) American civil rights leader.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) emperor of France.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it’s magnificent. It’s like champagne or high shoes, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) British novelist.

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American president.

I don’t mind martyrdom for a policy in which I believe, but I object to being burnt for someone else’s principles.
John Galsworthy (1867-1933) English novelist, dramatist.

There have been quite as many martyrs for bad causes as for good ones.
Hendrik Van Loon (1882-1944) American journalist, historian.

I ma very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish Philosopher.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put one.

But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle’s van; The fittest place where man can die is where he dies for man.
Michael J.Barry (1817-1889) Irish barrister.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Bible, Psalms.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo – Irish author.

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.
Napoleon.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
E.H.Chapin.

To die for the truth is not to die merely for one’s faith, or one’s country; it is to die for the world.

Their blood is shed in confirmation of the noblest claim the claim to feed upon immortal truth, to walk with God, and be delivery free.
Cowper.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.
Colton.

Those who completely sacrifice themselves are praised and admired; that is the short of character men like to find in others.
Rahel.

It is admirable to die the victim of one’s faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one’s ambition.
Lamartine.

God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will thereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they never had the opportunity of performing.
Addison.

Even in this world they will have their judgment day; and their names, which went down in the dust like a gallant banner trodden in the mire, shall rise again all glorious in the sight of nations.
Mrs. Stowe.

It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Horace Mann.

For some not to be martyred is a martyrdom.
Donne.

Marriage Quotes

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Saint Paul (3-67) Apostle to the Gentiles

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

By all means marry: if you get a good wife you’ill become happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher.

One was never married, and that is his hell; another is, and that is his plague.

Robert Burton (1577-1640)

It is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist.

There is. Indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer.

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready fro ad institution yet.

Mae West (1892-1980) American film actress.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic

Be not hasty to marry; it’s better to have one plough going than two cradles; and more profit to have a barn filled than a bed.

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English cleric.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all two.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)

I gravely doubt whether women ever were married by capture. I think they pretended to be; as they still do.

G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author.

Alas, she married another. They frequently do. I hope she is happy because I am.

Artemus Ward (1834-1867) American journalist.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire (1694-1778) French Philosopher, author.

The greatest sacrifice in marriage is the sacrifice of the adventurous attitude towards life.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast; but we, that are old, and know what we are abut, must elope methodically, madam.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Penn.

One of good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have generated upon it.

G.Macdonald.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder. God will take care of that.

G.Bernal Shaw.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much from a man!

Ibsen.

The Don Juans among men and the light O loves among women are afraid of marriage.

Dr. Alfred Adler.

Pleasant the snaffle of courtship, improving the manners and carriage; but the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible throw bit of Marriage.

Rudyard Kipling.

You cannot weld cake dough to cast iron, nor a girl to an old man.

Austin O Malley.

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don’t die at all he sort of rots away, like a pollywog’s tail.

Artemus Ward.

Manners Quotes

I don’t recall your name but your manners are familiar.
Oliver Herford (1863-1935) American poet, illustrator.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Unruly manners of ill-timed applause
Wrong the best speaker or the justest cause.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.

The society of women is the foundation of good manners.

Manhood is meted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue.

If a person has no delicacy, he ahs you in his power.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English essayist.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American poet, editor.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and glided forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse; whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
Swift.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected from both; and people will no more advance their civility to a bear than their money to a bankrupt.
Chesterfield.

Rules of conduct, whatever they may be, are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good.
Bertrand Russell.

Always behave as if nothing has happened no matter what has happened.
Arnold Bennett.

No man is a true gentleman who does not inspire the affection and devotion of his servants.
Andrew Carnegie.

Good manners are the small coin of virtue.
Women of England.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. If we strive to become, then, what we strive to become, then, what we strive to appear, manners may often be rendered useful guides to the performance of our duties.
Sydney smith.

Manners are minor morals.
Paley.

Cultured and fine manners are everywhere a passport to regard.

Good manners are the blossom of good sense and good feeling. If the law of kindness be written in the heart, it will lead to that disinterestedness in both great and little things that desire to oblige, and that attention to the gratification of others, which are the foundation of good manners.

A man, whose great qualities want the ornament of exterior attractions, is like a naked mountain with mines of gold, which will be frequented only till the treasure is exhausted.
Johnson.

The manner of saying or of doing anything goes a great way in the value of the thing itself. It was well said of him that called a good office, if done harshly and with an ill will, a stony piece of bread; “It is necessary for him that is hungry to receive it, but it almost chokes a man in the going down.”
Seneca.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
Emerson.

Grace is to the body, what good sense is to the mind.
Rochefoucauld.

Manner is everything with some people, and something with everybody.
Bp. Middleton.

There is not any benefit so glorious in itself, but it may yet be exceedingly sweetened and improved by the manner of conferring it. The virtue rests in the intent; the profit in the judicious application of the matter, but the beauty and ornament if an obligation lies to the manner of it.
Seneca.

Madness Quotes

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton (1608-1674) English poet.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Dr.Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

American writer, physician it is his reasonable conversation which mostly frightens us in a madman.
Anatole France (1844-1924) French author.

We must remember that every “mental” symptom is a veiled cry of anguish. Against what? Against oppression, or what the patient experiences as oppression. The oppressed speak a million tongues…
Thomas Szasz (b.1920) American psychiatrist.

Schizophrenic behavior is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R.D.laing (1927-1989) British psychiatrist.

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
R.D.laing (1927-1989) British psychiatrist.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
Thomas Szasz (b.1920) American psychiatrist.

If a patient is poor he is committed a public hospital as a “psychotic”. If he can afford a sanatorium, the diagnosis is “neurasthenia”. If he is wealthy enough to be in his own home under the constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply “an indisposed eccentric.”

Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said of poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason.
Sterne.

The insane, for the most part, reason correctly, but from false principles, while they do not perceive that their premises are incorrect.
Tryon Edwards.

The consummation of madness is, to do what, at the time of doing it, we intend to be afterward sorry for: the deliberate and intentional making of work for repentance.
W.Nevins.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or of heaven.
Moore.

Locke says the distinction between a madman and a fool is that a fool is he that from right principle makes a wrong conclusion; but a madman is one who draws a just inference from false principles. Thus the fool who cut off the fellow’s head that lay asleep, and hid it, and then waited to see what he would say when he awaked and missed his head piece, was in the right in the first thought, that a man would be surprised to find such an alteration in things since he fell asleep; but he was a little mistaken to imagine he could awake at all after his head was cut off.
Tatler.

How pregnant, sometimes, his replies are; a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of !.
Shakespeare.

He raves; his words are loose as heaps of sand, and scattered wide from sense. So high he’s mounted on his airy throne, that now the wind has got into his head; and turns his brains to frenzy.
Dryden.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Dryden.

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides, fragment.

Have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?
Shakespeare

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
Shakespeare

Luxury Quotes

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

J.L. Motley (1814-187) American historian.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Syrian mystic, poet.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) English actor, director.

Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad, except you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Orson Welles (1915-1985) American filmmaker.

Luxury makes a man so soft, that it is hard to please him, and easy to trouble him; so that his pleasures at last become his burden. Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.

Mackenzie.

Fell Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quick sands, poverty or chains.

H.More.

I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors; I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly contented and thoughtless upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summers butterfly?

H.W.Beecher.

Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.

Livy.

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the state.

Joubert.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury, and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Bancroft.

It was a shrewd saying, whoever said it, “ That the man who first brought ruin on the roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

Plutarch.

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdom have expired.

Young.

Unless we are accustomed to them from early youth, splendid chambers and elegant furniture had best be left to people who neither have nor can have any thoughts.

Goethe.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury than by giving; you make them exert industry, whereas, by giving it, you keep them idle.

Johnson.

Luxury may possible contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Home.

Oh, brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, tour choirs, your organs, tour gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far mode to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.

Spurgeon.

O luxury! Thou crust of heaven’s decree.

Goldsmith.

Were the labor and capital, now spent on pernicious luxuries, to be employed in the intellectual, moral, and religious culture of the whole people, how immense would be the gain, in every respect, though for a short time material products were diminished. A better age will look back with wonder and scorn on the misdirected industry of the present times.

Channing.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

Shakespeare.

Luxury is the first, second, and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the life blood of our veins.

Payson.

The more we accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge in those artificial delights which gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency.

M.Henry.

Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with everything that nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Johnson.