Dictionary of Famous Quotations

JealousyAn amiable weakness.FIELDING, HENRYHe was worse than provincial—he was parochial.JAMES, HENERYJealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart.Michael BeerAnger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of theirobjects than love.George EliotLove is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.Song of SolomonThough jealousy be […]

IdealismNo folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.Winston ChurchillMan is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.Oliver Wendell HolmesAn idealist is one who, on

HabitIt is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.CROMWELL, OLIVERHabit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.Augustine O HippoHabit is a sort of second nature.CiceroIt seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing

GardensA sensitive plant in a garden grew,And the young winds fed it with silver dew.SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHEWho loves a garden still his Eden keeps.Amos Bronson AlcottThe Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom He had formed.Old TestamentMany things grow in the garden that were never sowed there.ProverbGenerosityTrue

FactsIt beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is higher than vanity.BUNYAN, JOHNFacts alone are wanted in life.DICKENS, CHARLESNone but the brave deserves the fair.DRYDEN, JOHNWonders will never cease.DUDLEY, SIR HENRY BATEThe tide turns at low water as well as at high.ELLIS, HENRY HAVELOCKThe axis of the earth sticks

EconomyIf people starve what are they to do? Judges and magistrateswaxeloquent about the increase of crime; but are blind to theobvious economic causes of it.Jawahar lal NehruToo often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.Franklin D. RooseveltThe life and spirit of the American economy is progress and expansion.Harry

DangerDangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.Richard BaxterDanger, the spur of all great minds.George ChapmanAs soon as there is life there is danger.Ralph Waldo EmersonGreat perils have this beauty, that they bring to light thefraternity of strangers.Victor HugoOut of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.ShakespeareBetter face a danger once than be always

CAPITALISMIn arguing that capitalism as such is not the cause of war, I must not be taken as arguing that capitalists do not often believe in war. Believe that they and their country from it.Norman AngellThe dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere greed to admirable types of self-expression.Felix FrankfurterWhat

BankingA bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins to rains.Robert FrostBanking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.Thomas JeffersonA bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don’t need it.BOB HOPEBeautyRugged the breast that

AbilityStudies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.BACON, FRANCISI don’t know much about his ability, but he’s got a very good beside manner.DU MAURIER, GEORGE LOUIS PALMELLA BUSSONIt is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.HAZLITT, WILLIAMA child should always say what’s true.And speak