Quote list
Admiration
Admiration - Our polite recognition of
another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Age
At Twenty years of age, the will reigns; at
thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
Henry Grattan (1746-1820)
Art
Art is man added to nature.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Atheism
An Atheist is a man who has no invisible
means of support.
John Buchan (1875-1940)
Banks
Put not your trust in money, but put your
money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Business
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Milton Friedman (b. 1912)
Church
The Church after all is not a club of saints; it is a hospital for sinners.
George Craig Stewart (1879-1940)
Death
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death.
Saint Paul (3-67)
Education
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all we have been
taught.
Lord Halifax (1633-1695)
Fear
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear
itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
God
A man with God is always in the majority.
John Knox (1505-1572)
Husbands
Nothing flatters a man as much as the
happiness of his wife;
He is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Indecision
We all know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road: they
get run over.
Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)
Justice
Only a socially just country has the right to exist.
Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
Knowledge
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Ethel Watts Mumford (1878-1940)
Love
Love seeks not to possess, but to be
possessed.
R.H. Benson (1871-1914)
Luxury
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad,
except you never know when luxury is going to stand up
Orson Welles (1915-1985)
Mothers
God could not be everywhere and therefore
he made Mothers.
Jewish Proverb
Neighbours
Good fences make good neighbours.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Optimism
Oh, yet we trust that somehow good
Shall be the final goal of ill !
Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Pain
For we are born in each other's pain, and
perish in our own.
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
Politicians
A politician thinks of the next election; a
statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888)
Quotations
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Reform
You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
W.E. Gladstone (1809-1898)
School
I have never let my schooling
interfere with my education.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Technology
Technology is the science of arranging life so that one need not experience
it.
Anonymous
Understanding
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
Horace (65-8 BC)
Virtue
Be virtuous: not too much; just what's correct.
Excess in anything is a defect.
Jacques Monvel (1745-1812)
Wives
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal
husband.
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)
Work
My father taught me to work; he did not
teach me to love it.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Youth
But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
