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QUOTATIONS

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'Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love,

toward school with heavy looks - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'

'I don’t see much future for the Americans.... Everything about the behaviour of

American society reveals that it’s half Judaized, and the other half negrified.

How can one expect a State like that to hold together? ADOLF HITLER'

'Charity creates a multitude of sins - OSCAR WILDE'

'A teacher can but lead you to the door; learning is up to you - CHINESE PROVERB'

'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind - NEIL ARMSTRONG'

'Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country - MICHAEL FISH'

'Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him - ENGLISH PROVERB'

'England is a nation of shopkeepers - NAPOLEON'

'A teacher for a day is a father for a lifetime - CHINESE PROVERB'

'Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals - QUENTIN TARANTINO'

'Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia - H.G. WELLS (19th century)'

'Education costs money, but then so does ignorance - CLAUS MOSER'

'To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of

many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot - JOSEPH CONRAD'

'Language is an archeological vehicle ... the language we speak is a whole

palimpsest of human effort and history - RUSSEL HOBAN'

'Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there

is money—or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there

is a brain in reasonable order - SAMUEL BUTLER'

'Travel is glamorous only in retrospect - PAUL THEREOUX'

'Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots - KARL KRAUS'

'If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become

as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes - RALPH EMERSON'

'England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses - JOHN FLORIO'

'Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun - NOEL COWARD'

'Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas - ITALIAN PROVERB'

'Ability is nothing without opportunity - NAPOLEON BONAPARTE'

'I am a part of all that I have seen - Alfred LORD TENNYSON'

'Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some' - ALFRED HITCHCOCK'

'If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep - JEWISH/POLISH PROVERB'

'Good fences make good neighbours - SOURCE UNKNOWN'

'If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle - SPANISH PROVERB'

'Regret for wasted time is more wasted time - MASON COOLEY'

'Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money - MORRIE RYSKIND'

'All I know is I’m not a Marxist - KARL MARX'

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - and less trouble. Doctor Van Dyke

He who can, does. He who cannot teaches. George Bernard Shaw

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Book

“He who stays at home beside his hearth and is content with the information

which he may acquire concerning his own region,

cannot be on the same level as one who divides his lifespan between different lands,

and spends his days journeying in search of precious and original knowledge”

Al-Masudi

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed

by the things you didn’t do, than by the things you did”

Mark Twain

Why do I love? Go, ask the glorious sun why every day it round the world doth run ...

There is no reason for our love and hate: Just like death or fate they cannot be resisted.

Anonymous , Seventeeth Century

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth." - Jewish Proverb

"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them." - E.V. Lucas

"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike." - Plato

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Mahatma Gandhi

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.
George Bush, US President

When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.
Muhammad Ali

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Sir Winston Churchill


Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Sir Winston Churchill


Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Sir Winston Churchill


We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill


From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Sir Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Sir Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Sir Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Sir Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Sir Winston Churchill

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse

What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed
Mao Tse-Tung

Before I met my wife, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
John Smith

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Saki (H. H. Munro)

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened . Saki (H. H. Munro)

He who would travel happily must travel light
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.

William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players
They have their exits and entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts ...
William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. William Shakespeare

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. Alan Corenk

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Boneparte -

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.

Aprocryha

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. - Noam Chomsky -

Life is a zoo in a jungle. Ronald Cartwright

There's never a new fashion but it's old. Geoffrey Chaucer

Television is the triumph of machine over people. Fred Allen

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. - Marlon Brando

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Alan Watts

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