Holiday Quotes


Who first invented work, and bound the free an holiday rejoicing spirit down?
Lamb.

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work; but when they seldom come, the wished for come.
Shakespeare.

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves n silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart, when the full tide of feeling overflows.
Longfellow.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.
Tryon Edwards.

Under the leaves, amid the grass, lazily the day shall pass, yet not be wasted. From my drowsy ease I borrow health and strength to bear my boat through the great life ocean.
Mackay.

Holiness is the symmetry of the soul.
Philip Henry.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy, or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.
Tryon Edwards.

It must be a prospect pleasing to God to see his creatures forever drawing nearer to him by greater degrees of resemblance.
Addison.

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.
Mrs. Jameson.

Holiness is the architectural plan on which God buildeth up his living temple.
Spurgeon.

Our holy lives must win a new world’s crown.
Shakespeare.

Holiness is religious principle put into action. It is faith gone to work. It is love coined into conduct; devotion helping human suffering, and going up in intercession to the great source of all good.
F.D. Huntington.

If it be the characteristic of a worldly man than he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.
Chalmers.

Not all the pomp and pageantry of worlds reflect such glory on the eye supreme, as the meek virtues of the holy man.
R.Montgomery.

Everything holy is before what is unholy; guilt presupposes innocence, not the reverse. Angels, but not fallen ones, were created. Man does not properly rise to the highest, but first sinks down from it, and then afterward rises again.
Richter.

The essence of true holiness consists in conformity to the nature and will of God.
Lucas.

Holiness consisteth not in a cowl or in a garment of gray. When God purifies the heart by faith, the market is sacred as well as the sanctuary; neither remaineth there any work or place which is profane.
Luther.

Holiness in us, is the copy or transcript of the holiness that is in Christ. As the wax hath line for line from the seal, and the child feature for feature from the father, so is holiness in us from him.
Philip hurry.

What Christianity most needs in her antagonism with every from of unbelief, is holy living.
Christlieb.

The beauty of holiness has done more, and will do more, to regenerate the world and bring in everlasting righteousness them all the other agencies put together. It has done more to spread religion in the world, than all that has ever been preached or written on the evidences of Christianity.
Chalmers.

A holy life is a voice; it speaks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant attraction or a perpetual reproof.
Leighton.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the spirit of God.
Pascal.

History Quotes



The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana (1863-1952) American philosopher, poet.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
Anonymous.

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

But what experience and historian teach is this that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on the principles deduced from it.
George Hegel (1770-1831) German philosopher.

History is bunk.
Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S.Truman (1884-1972) American President.

Only the history of free people is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

History, a distillation of Rumour.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author.

Ancient histories are but fables that have been agreed upon.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author.

History is the crystallization of popular beliefs.
Donn Piatt (1819-1891) American journalist.

Gossip is none the less gossip because it comes from venerable antiquity.
Mandell Creighton (1843-1901) English Prelate, historian.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

History is better written from letters… no public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
Lord Acton (1843-1902) English historian.

The so called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalization of the victors. History is written but the survivors.
Max Lerner (b.1902) American academic.

History. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rules, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.

History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Hendrik Van Loon (1882-1944) American journalist, historian.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they every did.
Malcolm Bradbury (b.1932) British author.

That great dust heap called “history”.
Angustine Birrell (1850-1933) British Liberal politician.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also by warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.
Garfield.

All history is a lie.
Sir R. Walpole.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong; Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
Froude.

Heart Quotes


When your heart is broken, your boats are burned; nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

The heart is the best logician.
Wendell Phillips.

If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain.
Young.

A good heart is worth gold.
Shakespeare.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Dickens.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Bossuet.

The ways of the hart, like the ways of providence, are mysterious.
Ware.

Suppose that a man would advertise to take photographs of the heart; would he get many customers?
D.L. Moody.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit
Bulwer.

All who know their own minds, do not know their own hearts.
Rochefoucauld.

What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.
Owen D.Young.

The heart of man is of it self but little, yet great things cannot fill it; it is not big enough at one meale to satisfie bird, and yet the whole world cannot satisfie it.
Thomas Dekker

There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Byron.

Every one must in a measure be alone in the world; for no heart was ever cast in the same mold as that which we bear within us.
Berni.

The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow.
Deluzy.

A kind heart is a foundation of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving.

When the heart goes before, like a lamp, and illumines the pathway, many things are made clear that else lie hidden in darkness.
Longfellow.

When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
Napoleon.

Heaven’s sovereign saves all beings but himself that hideous sight, a naked human heart.
Young.

There are many persons the brilliancy of whose minds depends on the heart. When they open that, it is hardly possible for it not to throw out some fire.
Desmahis.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age; but the heart can.
Richter.

All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
Bacon.

It is much easier to pull up many weeds out of a garden, than one corruption out of the heart; to procure a hundred flowers to adorn a knot, than one grace to beautify the soul.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Chesterfield.

The depraved and sinful heart does not of itself grow better, but goes on from bad to worse; but the heart renewed by divine likeness; its path is that of the just, that shineth more and more to the perfect day.

Haste Quotes


Through I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry
Jon Wesley

The More Haste ever the worse speed. – Churchill.

No Two Things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
Colton.

Haste is of the devil.
Koran.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
Shakespeare.

Hurry is only good for catching files.
Russian Proverb.

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing it with speed to the haven.
Fuller.

The longest way round is the shortest way home.

Haste trips its own heels, and fetters and stops itself.
Seneca

Haste is not always speed. We must learn to work and wait. This is like God, who perfects hi works through beautiful gradations.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Moliere.

Haste usually turns upon bring late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of always being ten minutes too early.
Bovee.

It is of no use running; to set out be times is the main point.
La Fontaine.

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and he tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
C.A. Stoddard.

Stay awhile to make an end the sooner.
Paulet.

Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste.
Franklin.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the things he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things.
Chesterfield.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Emerson.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.
Shakespeare.

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of dispatch and skill, but neither of them ever learns the master’s trade.
Colton.

Make haste slowly.

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.