Laughter is the shortest
distance between two people
- Victor Borge |
Life is like a mirror. Smile
at it and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes
sinister
- Edwige Feuilliere |
Conscience is God's presence
in man
- Swedenborg |
It is better to die on your
feet than to live on your knees
- Dolores Ibarruri |
Luck never made a mad man
wise
- Seneca |
Manners make the fortune of
the ambitious youth
- R.W. Emerson |
No matter how good the idea
of the other fellow may be, there is always a better
one!
- W.R. Nelson |
One must be poor to know the
luxury of giving
- George Eliot |
Politeness is to human
nature what warmth is to wax
- Arthur Schopenhauer |
Religion is behaviour and
not mere belief
- S. Radhakrishnan |
God made time, but man made
haste
- Irish proverb |
To speak ill of others is a
dishonest way of praising ourselves
- Will and Ariel Durant |
Truth fears no trial
- Thomas Fuller |
Honesty once pawned is never
redeemed
- Thomas Middleton |
Dig a well before you are
thirsty
- Chinese proverb |
Do not tell me the problem
is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would
not be a problem
- Marshal Foch |
He who hesitates is
sometimes saved
- James Thurber |
I think patriotism is like
charity. It begins at home
- Henry James |
Criticism of public men is a
welcome sign of public awakening. It keeps workers on
the alert
- Jawaharlal Nehru |
History repeats itself.
That's one of the things wrong with history
- Clarence Darrow |
Evil events spring from evil
causes
- Aristophanes |
It is difficult to see the
picture when you are inside the frame
- R.S. Trapp |
Laughter is the sun that
drives winter from the human face
- Victor Hugo |
Light is good in whatever
lamp it may burn, even as a rose is beautiful in
whatever garden it may bloom
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
Useless laws weaken
necessary ones
- Montesquieu |
Well done is better than
well said
- Benjamin Franklin |
Books without the knowledge
of life are useless
- Samuel Johnson |
Experience is the best
teacher
- Proverb |
No one was ever really
taught by another, each of us has to teach himself
- Vivekananda |
A room without books is a
body without a soul
- Cicero |
When you educate a man you
educate an individual, and when you educate a woman you
educate a whole family
- Jawaharlal Nehru |
To teach is to learn twice
- Joseph Jonbert |
A successful man is one who
can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others
throw at him
- David Brinkley |
A man without imagination is
like a bird without wings
- Wilhalm Raabe |
By being pleasant always and
smiling, it takes you nearer to God; nearer than any
prayer
- Vivekananda |
An honest man's word is as
good as his bond
- Cervantes |
Everybody thinks of changing
humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself
- Leo Tolstoy |
Much learning does not teach
understanding
- Heraclitus |
Arise, awake and stop not
till the goal is reached
- Vivekananda |
Men are cruel, but man is
kind
- Rabindranath Tagore |
Most of the shadows of this
life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Strength is made perfect in
weakness
- H. Corinthians |
Live as if you were to die
tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever
- Mahatma Gandh |
No one can make you feel
inferior without your consent
- Eleanor Roosevelt |
Only few men think, but all
have opinions
- Bishop Berkeley |
Only few men think, but all
have opinions
- Bishop Berkeley |
Failure is often God's own
tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the
character of his children
- T. Hodgkin |
Nothing is permanent except
change
- Heraclitus |
People who invite trouble
always complain when it occurs
- Lane Olinghouse |
The key to everything is
patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg. Not
by smashing it
- Arnold Glasow |
The most wonderful thing
about miracles is that they sometimes happen
- G.K. Chesterton |
