A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
—Lucille Ball (American Actor)
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (American Jurist, Author)
What is the people but a herd confused, a miscellaneous rabble, who extol things vulgar, and well weigh’d, scarce worth the praise? they praise and they admire they know not what, and know not whom, but as one leads the other.
—John Milton (English Poet)
When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury-like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.
—Euripides (Ancient Greek Dramatist)
A man is not finished when he’s defeated; he’s finished when he quits.
—Richard Nixon (American Head of State)
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
—Augustine of Hippo (Roman-African Christian Philosopher)
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
—Karl Marx (German Philosopher, Economist)
One’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action … which bring results.
—Florence Nightingale (English Nurse)
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation, and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
—Moliere (French Playwright)
Don’t give up. Courage is my conviction.
—Dhirubhai Ambani (Indian Businessperson)
A silent mouth is melodious.
—Irish Proverb
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in himself calleth religion.
—Thomas Hobbes (English Political Philosopher)
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
—Adlai Stevenson (American Diplomat)
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity…
—Edward de Bono (British Psychologist, Writer)