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Most Accessed Quotes in our system - 641 to 660
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Patriotism
Government
Loyalty
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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Author:
Carl W. Buechner
Subject:
Words
Emotions
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Author:
Confucius
Subject:
Anger
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You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Wisdom
Deception
American Presidential Quotes
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Wisdom
Knowledge
Justice
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Motivational
Thinking
American Presidential Quotes
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Author:
Robert Frost
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Subject:
Life
American First Lady Quotes
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Fate & Destiny
Justice
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Author:
William Butler Yeats
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FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
Subject:
Humor
Sarcasm
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Truth
Time
American Presidential Quotes
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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Author:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Subject:
Life
Excellence
Acting
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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
History
World
Sarcasm
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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
Subject:
Wisdom
Morality
Virtue
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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Genius
Time
Thinking
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The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
Author:
Pierre de Coubertin
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In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.
Author:
Edward O. Wilson
Subject:
Art
World
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Action
Silence
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Education
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