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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.


Sir John Robert Seeley

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BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Work on your life carefully, it may have holes, and it may not be perfect, but if you play it right,...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is
OSCAR WILDE Life might not be as beautiful as you thought it would be but whatever it is that's life & it's wond...
NARESH JELLA SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: … But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to ...
OSCAR WILDE See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
ORSON SCOTT CARD A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting.
KESHA It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I c...
JOHN BURNSIDE Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to fin...
ERIC IDLE We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY Only the one who does not know what is life may believe that it is beautiful and easy.
ALBERT CAMUS Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Woman's love is writ in water, Woman's faith is traced in sand. - Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) ...
SIR ROBERT AYTOUN (AYTON) OF KINCALDIE Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
BILLY WEST Life may not always go the way you'd planned, you may not have the perfect family, you may not be th...
MADELINE SHEEHAN Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet ag...
JOHN PAUL RICHTER Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Life may not be party you hoped for,But that doesnt mean u should stop dancing!Remember you are the ...
ANMOL P. JAORA [Robert] Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he ...
JOSEPH BRODSKY But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir La...
PATRICK STEWART There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
IAN MCKELLEN Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and ...
HAL DAVID True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most...
JOHN GREEN Relax! Life is beautiful!
DAVID L. WOLPER Life can be messy & confusing but it is also full of surprise. The next rock may be stepping stone t...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it con...
BURTON G. MALKIEL There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
JONATHAN SWIFT Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or...
NORTON JUSTER It was an extraordinary connection, the synergy within the band. There was an area of ESP between Ro...
JIMMY PAGE Life is beautiful but people are crazy.
CHARLES OSGOOD Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
BRIT MARLING Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equa...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times ...
DONALD RUMSFELD This is just an interesting observation that may or may not be true and the data are not convincing ...
DR. FELIX RATJEN It may be a winding path; it may be longer, though its mysteries make it much more interesting.
RICKBISCHOFF Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
P.G. WODEHOUSE As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but...
LORD BYRON Putting beautiful typefaces on weak ad .. Is likePutting make-up on a corpse it may look beautiful,B...
STAVROS COSMOPULOS Wherever you may go; Life is a beautiful thing. Life is like a passing season. It comes and go. What...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and your present situation may ...
RICKY MAYE They may not think that that's a problem, but John Kerry thinks deficits do matter.
JASON FURMAN That was beautiful, John,
NANCY WALKER A fox may steal your hens, sir, / . . . If lawyer's hand is fee'd sir, / He steals your whole estate...
JOHN GAY Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points the life of the W...
HELEN KELLER Life is beautiful, but it is also so damn ugly.
MOMMY MOO MOO It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Your day is like clay. Some may mold it to something beautiful or to something you may not want. But...
JOHN B. BEJO Life may not be a spectator sport but many spend time watching it go by.
VIKRANT PARSAI It will not only be an interesting assignment, but it will be therapeutic.
LESLIE JENSEN It is a beautiful dream, but not one I would be expecting.
FRANCOIS DOUMEN It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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ANGELA ADAMS Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident - It is as common as life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Robert had his chance. He may have his chance again, but right now, I feel Michael Spurlock is the b...
ED ORGERON Life can be so interesting,but it will become so uninteresting when we fill it with unbelief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t ...
NIKITA GILL Originality is not only the most beautiful, but the best personality in life.
ANUJ SOMANY She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and en...
CHARLES DICKENS No sir, I didn't do that. I did not do that.
HILLARY CLINTON I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gi...
KENNETH BRANAGH The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for...
BRUCE CATTON Perception may not be everything, but it is powerful!
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ILLEANA DOUGLAS But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Why things are not easy? * 'Cause life is not.
MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA I may not be beautiful,
I may not be tall,
I may have no legs,
And be hairy and all.<...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS No sir, ... The better course would be not to do it.
MARCIA LEWIS My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it...
DIANA ROSE MORCILLA I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me tha...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that ...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that...
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have...
ANN M. MARTIN A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON One's passion may be bold. One's passion may be bright. One's passion may be beautiful.
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MORGAN FREEMAN I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
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LIAM HEMSWORTH Life is beautiful, but we often forget and decorate it with ugliness.
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HUBERT FONTANEL Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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CATHY SEELEY When districts get tight financially, they're cut back. When there is pressure to improve math score...
CATHY SEELEY If you are a math and science teacher in this country, you can choose many different places where yo...
CATHY SEELEY Preexisting law does not magically disappear simply because it is later revoked as a regrettable err...
HOPE SEELEY I really hope for more Broadway. I didn't think I was going to love it this much. I would love t...
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SIR ROBERT WALPOLE Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
SIR ROBERT HUTCHINSON The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops. [on the musical "Oh...
SIR ROBERT HELPMANN Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM 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 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 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 The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debau...
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
SIR JOHN EGAN Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not pl...
SIR JOHN HARVEY Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
SIR JOHN DENHAM What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
SIR JOHN BOWRING We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer an...
SIR JOHN ELIOT Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckl...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
SIR JOHN DAVIES Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
SIR JOHN DENHAM 'Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.'
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Secrecy is the badge of fraud.
SIR JOHN CHADWICK Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
SIR JOHN DENHAM It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
SIR JOHN HARVEY You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the fi...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might g...
SIR JOHN BOWRING We are never like angels till our passion dies.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of w...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL Deeds are males, words females are.
SIR JOHN DAVIES I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted ...
SIR JOHN DENHAM You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt. [Fr., Vous...
SIR JOHN DENHAM Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON 'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; ...
SIR JOHN DENHAM Best fishing in troubled waters.
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmas...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the ligh...
SIR JOHN SUCKLING The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different.'
SIR JOHN TEMPLETON For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
SIR JOHN DAVIES Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.
SIR JOHN HOLT Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
SIR JOHN POWELL Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide: If aught...
SIR JOHN DAVIES O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Though de...
SIR JOHN DENHAM A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- D...
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Nothing happens until something moves.
SIR JOHN DENHAM There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring, He that made it did refu...
SIR JOHN DAVIES The only real talent Miss Day possesses is that of being absolutely sanitary: her personality untouc...
SIR JOHN SIMON Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
SIR JOHN SIMON Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world (The Relapse)
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Sandy Dennis has balanced her postnasal condition with something like prefrontal lobotomy, so that w...
SIR JOHN SIMON Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squee...
SIR JOHN SIMON Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
SIR JOHN SIMON 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to th...
SIR JOHN SUCKLING Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a l...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Moche Crye and no Wull.
SIR JOHN FORTESCUE Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon...
SIR JOHN DENHAM Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho, And ne'er be seen againe.
SIR JOHN BERKENHEAD The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

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SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou...
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of cl...
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The boy is not governed by don't ,but is led by do.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL A boy is naturally full of humor.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of another brother.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good l...
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The good turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL In all of this, it is the spirit that matters. Our Scout law and Promise, when we really put them in...
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL See things from the boy's point of view.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibil...
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL There is no teaching to compare with example.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer show...
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
SIR JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD The people would rather have John A. drunk than Brown sober
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD The laboratory is the highest containment laboratory that you can make and, from that point of view,...
DR. SIR JOHN SKEHEL We started the whole network in 1947 from this laboratory on behalf of the WHO, so the World Influen...
DR. SIR JOHN SKEHEL In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family reci...
ROBERT ST. JOHN Helping to shape the milieu that you wish you had, is a courageous strength that silently whispers u...
ROBERT JOHN DOTO It doesn't use shading, but it does use stroke length variations.
JOHN ROBERT GREGG 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 Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD Woman's love is writ in water, Woman's faith is traced in sand. - Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) ...
SIR ROBERT AYTOUN (AYTON) OF KINCALDIE Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never thought upon.
SIR ROBERT AYTOUN (AYTON) OF KINCALDIE Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishe...
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN 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 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 All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE