SOME UNUSUAL QUOTATIONS

 

 

 

SOME UNUSUAL QUOTATIONS

A quotation is defined as a group of words or a short piece of writing taken from a book, play, speech, etc. and repeated because it is interesting or useful. For example: Work Is Worship’ was said by Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) and has become a quotation both in religion and secular literature.

‘A Book of Quotations’ provides a number of interesting thoughts on various subjects. It is very useful for students, teachers, writers, speakers, orators, etc.  Most of the reputed publishers having a large number of clients publish such books.

The source of the unusual quotations given below is a pretty old book edited by Rudolf Flesch and published by the  British Publishing House  Cassell , founded in 1848.

1.     Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; ‘tis not the eating, nor ‘tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess. So with pride .---John Selden.

2.     The difference between a well-bred and ill-bred man is this: One immediately attracts your liking, and the other aversion. You love the one till you find reason to hate him; you hate the other till you find reason to love him.---Samuel Johnson.

3.     It takes a kind of genius to make a fortune, and especially a large fortune. It is neither goodness, nor wit, nor talent, nor strength, nor delicacy. I don’t know precisely what it is: I am waiting for someone to tell me. ---Jean De La Bruyere.

4.     Man is not  born wicked : he becomes so, as he becomes sick, ---Voltaire

5.     People are so wicked that their life would be miserable without the consolation of religion. ---George Bernard Shaw

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G.R.Kanwal

31 May 2024