Favourite Quotes
Quotes are short sentences with a great meaning. They inspire and motivate all of us. There are a lot of quotes available on the internet. However, here are some of my favourite quotes from my diary, which I would like to share:
Accuracy is twin brother of honesty: C. Simmons
The actions of men are like index to the book. They point out what is most remarkable in them: Thomas
Never trust advice of man in difficulties: Aesop
Much of good manners is about knowing when to pretend that what is happening is not happening: Falk Feely
A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down: Evan Esar
Curiosity leads to listening behind closed doors, and also discovery of America: Jose Maria
No wise man ever wished to be younger: Swift
Army is good book to study human life: De Vigny
Nothing is more hateful to a poor man than the purse proud of the rich: Cumberland
Authority forgets dying king: Tennyson
The banker is a man who lends you umbrella when the whether is fair and takes it back when it rains: Anonymous
Life is splendid show, but we have bad seats and we do not understand what we are watching: Clemencean
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter: Mark Twain
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity: Tom Stoppard
A man must not swallow more belief than he can digest: Haxelock Hills
If you want one year's prosperity, grow grain, if you want ten year's prosperity, grow men: Wiseman
If at first you doubt, doubt again: W. Bennett
Every man has his price: Sir Robert Walpole
One man cannot hold another man in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him: Booker
Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at distance: Steele
Character is what you are in dark: Dwight L. Moody
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of education: Victor Hugo
Performance of one's duty should be independent of public opinion: M K Gandhi
Delay in justice, is injustice: W.S. Lander
There are two tragedies of life. One is not to get your heart's desire and the other to get it: G. B. Shaw
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them: Goethe
It is impossible for any man not to have some enemies: Chesterfield
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses :Thephratus
He who feasts everyday, feasts no day: C. Simmons
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss: Pubilitus Syrus
The men who made history had not time to write it: Metternich
I am part of all that I have met: Tennyson
He who begins many things finishes nothing: C. Simmons
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts: Voltaire
I cannot afford to waste my time making money: Agassiz
No Country can be over populated, if there is work for everyone: Pandit Nehru.
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears: Rochefoucauld
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is: G. B. Shaw
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them: C.C. Colten
Give me love and work, these two only: William Harris
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought: Proverb
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it: Proverb
Rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned: Montaigne
The most certain way to hide from others the limits of our knowledge is not to go beyond them: Leopard I
If you can't make a man think as you do, make him do as you think: Proverb
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do: Thomas Jefferson
Words mean what you want them to mean: Proverb
A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what the ships are for: John Shield
Wise men say because they have something to say, fools say because they have to say something: Anonymous
Most people allow themselves to grow old prematurely: Col J.D. Katkar
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue: Gilbert Chesterton
We hate a person because we do not know him, and we will not know him because we hate him: Colton
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward for a trip: Caskie Stinnet
No one really listens to anyone else. try for a while and you will understand why: Mignon
We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count: Emerson
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are most useless, peacocks and lilies for example: Ruskin
He is rich whose income is more than his expenses, and he is poor whose expenses exceed his income: La Drugre
An exert is one who knows more and more about less and less: Nicolas Butler
Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better: Cuoe
There are many people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love spoken of: Rochefoucauld
To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live: Tolstoy
He who loves not his country, can love nothing: Byrann
You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest: Luis McHenry Howe
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong: Abraham Lincon, 1864
It is absolutely safe to love the enemy: Vinoba Bhave
A shortcut is often the quickest way to some place you were not going: Crossword
There is no such thing as a non-working mother: Hester Mundis
When a man says he approves something in principle, it means that he has not the slightest intention of putting it into practice: Otto Von Bismarck
The discovery of new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of star: Brillat Savarin
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you have become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life: Joyce Brothers
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man: Margaret Mead
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother: The Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner: Proverb
Take your work seriously, but yourself lightly: Metacalf