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

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