Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego li...
SIR WILLIAM There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishe...
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world command...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
SIR HENRY WOTTON Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and deter...
SIR THOMAS TREVES The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
SIR MAX BEERBOHM Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.
SIR EDWARD HOBY All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
SIR WILLIAM JONES When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
SIR RICHARD STEELE The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may...
SIR RICHARD STEELE A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin be...
SIR SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtu...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
SIR RONALD MASON Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
SIR HUGH WALPOLE If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to tho...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
SIR HENEAGE OGILVIE Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profe...
SIR THEODORE MARTIN A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
SIR RICHARD STEELE That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of rec...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have ever...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry ...
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
SIR HENRY WOTTON There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compel...
SIR ISAAC NEWTON Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who ...
SIR PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE Choose an author as you choose a friend.
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which ...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav...
SIR RICHARD STEELE The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven...
SIR RICHARD STEELE My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given:
I hold ...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
SIR RICHARD STEELE Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH I am not young enough to know everything.
SIR J.M. BARRIE Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betak...
SIR EDWARD COKE There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and ...
SIR EDWARD COKE The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In War: ResolutionIn Defeat: DefianceIn Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offe...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large ma...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia i...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma;...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will no...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because h...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL For myself I am an optimistit does not seem to be much use being anything else.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the ch...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemans speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettyne...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn o...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL One woman who managed to corner him, the story runs, said in a treacly gushing voice:Doesnt it thril...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundatio...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British E...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealw...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Once upon a time all the animals in the zoo decided that they would disarm, and they arranged to hav...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sur...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful se...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I am most anxious that in dealing with matters which every Member knows are extremely delicate matte...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Bal...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No fo...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Uni...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals to...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull th...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in m...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
SIR CLAUS MOSER The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing...
SIR PETER IMBERT The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH When the critics come around it's always too late.
SIR SIDNEY NOLAN No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A camel is a horse designed by committee.
SIR ALEC ISSIGONIS There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the wor...
SIR PETER MEDAWAR I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
SIR NATHAN ROTHSCHILD A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
SIR RICHARD STEELE I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore ...
SIR PETER HALL Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Well languag'd Danyel.
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal car...
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave scho...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they lea...
SIR WILLIAM HALEY The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
SIR RICHARD STEELE I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an except...
SIR RICHARD STEELE The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
SIR RICHARD HULL The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests wi...
SIR ARTHUR HELPS Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. About Russia
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the fl...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debau...
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
SIR JOHN EGAN All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one...
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what ha...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Pain with the thousand teeth.
SIR WILLIAM WATSON The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain ...
SIR THOMAS WYATT God has given us these opportunities for tranquility.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake o...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservati...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not pl...
SIR JOHN HARVEY I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inabi...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Either I will find away or I will make one
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Never despair, keep pushing on!
SIR THOMAS LIPTON Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yours...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT