QUOTES

 

QUOTES

A NAME IS A KIND OF FACE WHEREBY ONE IS KNOWN.---FULLER

 

YOU WILL FIND POETRY NOWHERE, UNLESS YOU BRING SOME WITH YOU.---JOSEPH JOUBERT

 

WHO WILL ADHERE TO HIM THAT ABANDONS HIMSELF.---SIR PHILIP SYDNEY

 

GREATNESS IS SO OFTEN A COURTEOUS SYNONYM FOR GREAT SUCCESS.---PHILIP GUEDALLA

 

LAWS SHOULD BE LIKE CLOTHES.  THEY SHOULD BE MADE TO FIT THE PEOPLE THEY ARE MEANT TO SERVE.---CLARANCE DARROW

 

YOUTH, THOUGH IT MAY LACK KNOWLEDGE, IS CERTAINLY NOT DEVOID OF INTELLIGENCE; IT SEES THROUGH SHAMS WITH SHARP AND, TERRIBLE EYES.---H. L. MENCKEN

 

ONE FOOL CAN ASK MORE QUESTIONS IN A MINUTE THAN TWELVE WISE MEN CAN ANSWER IN AN HOUR.---LENIN

 

I NEVER WONDER TO SEE MEN WICKED, BUT I OFTEN WONDER TO SEE THEM NOT ASHAMED.---JONATHAN SWIFT

 

NEXT TO LOVE, SYMPATHY IS THE DIVINEST PASSION OF THE HUMAN HEART.---EDMUND BURKE

 

THE STUDY OF MATHEMATCIS CULTIVATES THE REASON; THAT OF THE LANGUAGES, AT THE SAME TIME, THE REASON AND THE TASTE.  THE FORMER GIVES GRASP AND POWER TO THE MIND; THE LATTER BOTH POWER AND FLEXIBILITY.  THE FORMER, BY ITSELF, WOULD PREPARE US FOR A STATE OF CERTAINTIES, WHICH NO WHERE EXISTS; THE LATTER, FOR A STATE OF PROBABILITIES, WHICH IS THAT OF COMMON LIFE.  EACH, BY ITSELF, DOES BUT AN IMPERFECT; IN THE UNION OF BOTH, IS THE BEST DISCIPLINE FOR THE MIND, AND THE BEST MENTAL TRAINING FOR THE WORLD AS IT IS.----TRYON EDWARDS

 

MAN’S LOVE IS OF MAN’S LIFE A PART; IT IS WOMAN’S WHOLE EXISTENCE.---FRANCIS BACON

 

THE GREATEST GLORY OF A FREE-BORN PEOPLE IS TO TRANSMIT THAT FREEDOM TO THEIR CHILDRE.----WILLIAM HAVARD

 

THE HEART OF MAN IS A SHORT WORD, A SMALL SUBSTANCE, SCARCE ENOUGH TO GIVE A KITE A MEAL, YET GREAT IN CAPACITY; YEA, SO INDEFINITE IN DESIRE THAT THE ROUND GLOBE OF THE WORLD CANNOT FILL THE THREE CORNERS OF IT.----WHEN IT DESIRES MORE AND CRIES, “GIVE, GIVE,” I WILL SET IT OVER TO THE INFINITE GOOD, WHERE THE MORE IT HATH, IT MAY DESIRE MORE, AND SEE MORE TO BE DESIRED.----BISHOP HALL

 New Yorkers like to think of their hometown less as a city than as a nation unto itself. They refer to the country in which they reside as little more than a geographical accident of little relevance.  “I don’t live in America,” they’ll tell you.  “I live in New York.” ----GARY YOUNGE, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR.

 

The Global economic boom has accelerated greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold not expected for a decade and could potentially cause irreversible climate change.----TIM FLANNERY, A CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENTIST

 

India has behaved in a responsible manner as far as non-proliferation is concerned…It is important to us that India be in a position to restart big-scale international cooperation in civilian nuclear energy.  And this means necessarily an agreement with the IAEA, and an evolution of the guidelines of the NSG.----JEROME BONNAFONT, FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO INDIA.

Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.---RICHARD WHATLEY

 

When the gods were more human, men were more godlike,.---SCHILLER

 

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.---BOLLEAU

 

Justice is not a cloistered virtue; she must be allowed to suffer the scrutiny and respectful, even though outspoken, comments of ordinary men.”---LORD ATKIN

 

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