Dictionary of Famous Quotations

The Song of WisdomThis wisdom is the principle of all things.ZoharThis mysterious wisdom is the supreme principle of all.ZoharAnd when the benevolence of benevolences manifests itself, all things are in her light and in joy.ZoharThat which satisfies the soul is the wisdom which governs the world.Lalita VistaraWisdom and the ReligionsMay the partisans of all doctrinces […]

YouthThe visions of my youth are past too bright, too beautiful to last.BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLENConfidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.CHATHAM, WILLIAM PITTHow happy he who crowns in shades like these,A youth of labour with an age of ease.GOLDSMITH, OLIVERYoung blood must have its course,

WarThere never was a good war or a bad peace.FRANKLIN, BENJAMINThe quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.TERENCENothing excepts a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.WELLINGTON, ARTHUR WELLESLEYAs long as war is

VictoryBe ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.MANN, HORACEThey see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.MARCY, WILLIAM LEARNEDWhich if not victory is yet revenge.MILTON, JOHNThe people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.St. AugustineYou ask, what is our aim? I

UnityWhen bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.BURKE, EDMUNDPerhaps our name too will be mingled with these.OVIDIn union there is strength.AesopAll for one, one for all, that is our device, is it not?Alexandre DumasWe cannot stand still or slip backwards. We

TaxationTo please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to bewise, is not given to men.Edmund BurkeThe art of taxation consists is so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.Jean Baptiste

ScienceGive me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth.ARCHIMEDESYet it does move. (The earth moves round the sun)GALILEI, GALILIOLogic and metaphysics make us of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and they do the least work.Charls Caleb ColtonScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.Abraham LincolnWe

ReasonMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.BRADLEY, FRANCIS HERBERTShe just wore enough for modesty—no more.BUCHANAN, ROBERT WILLIAMSFor every why he had a wherefore.BUTLER, SAMUELHe knew what’s what, and that’s as high As metaphysics wit can fly.BUTLER, SAMUELAll beauteous things for which we liveBy laws of time and space decayBut

QuestionI hate and love. Why I do it, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and am tortured.CATULLUS, GAIUS VALERIUSO say! What is that thing called Light, Which I can never enjoy?CIBBER, COLLEYIn an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.RALEIGH, SIR WALTER ALEXANDERWhat

PastI reject the monstrous theory that while a man may redeem the past a woman never can.CAINE, SIR THOMAS HENRY HALLI have had playmates, I have had companions,In my days of childhood, in my joyful schooldaysAll, all are gone the old familiar faces.LAMB, CHARLESThings past redress are now with me past care.SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAMO, if Jupiter

OpinionSuch and so various are the tastes of men.AKENSIDE, MARKI am my own ancestor.JUNOT, ANDOCHEOld friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.SELDEN, JOHNI have boughtGolden opinions from all sorts of people.SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAMWith the single of exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not

NationPeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.JEFFERSON, THOMASHow much more are men than nations!Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is because nations tend to stupidity and baseness thatmankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have acapacity for better things that it moves at all.George GissingThere is no such thing as a little

MajorityDecision by majorities is as much an expendient as lighting by gas.GLADSTONE, WILLIAM, EWARTA mojority can do anything.Joseph G. CannonOne with the law is majority.Calvin CoolidgeOne and God make a majority.Frederick DouglassThe oppression of a majority is detestable and odious: the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.William Ewart

LabourThe insupportable labour of doing nothing.STEELE, SIR RICHARDSo do you bees make honey, not for yourselves.VIRGILThere is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.Calvin CoolidgeEmployment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.GalenDon’t waste any time mourning—organize!Joe HillEach needs the other; capital cannot do without labour, nor labour without

KindnessIt is difficult to tell how much men’s minds are conciliated by a kind manner and a gentle speech.CiceroHe who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.ConfuciusA kindness loses its grace by being noised abroad,Who desires it to be remembered should forget it.Pierre ConrneilleTo cultivate kindness is a valuable part