English Quotations Complete Collection: Volume IV E-Book

Daniel B. Smith

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

The main objective of this book series is to provide you an impressive and invaluable collection of English quotes, so as to enhance your general knowledge and maybe even your life. 
In this book you will find different quotes of renowned people, with regard to motivational, inspirational and even everyday life topics.
Reading the most relevant quotes will help you see the world in a new paradigm, according to author’s life experiences.
It is important to remember that life is a journey and we all learn from others’ experiences; thus we can discover new insights into what life might be all about.
I hope you find this book very useful and recommend it to your peers! Good luck! 

Leseprobe

English Quotations

Complete Collection:

Volume IV

-6177 quotations-

From Farshad Asl to Herbert Hoover

Daniel B. Smith

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Table of contents

Introduction

Quotations by Farshad Asl (16)

Quotations by Fawn Weaver (15)

Quotations by Felicity Luckey (30)

Quotations by Fernando Pessoa (21)

Quotations by Flannery O’Connor (25)

Quotations by Florence King (14)

Quotations by Florence Nightingale (16)

Quotations by Fran Lebowitz (42)

Quotations by Francis Bacon (122)

Quotations by Francis Chan (12)

Quotations by Francis Of Assisi (12)

Quotations by Francis Quarles (15)

Quotations by Francois De La Rochefoucauld (146)

Quotations by Francois Fenelon (18)

Quotations by Francoise Sagan (12)

Quotations by Frank Clark (17)

Quotations by Frank Herbert (52)

Quotations by Frank Lloyd Wright (45)

Quotations by Frank Sinatra (19)

Quotations by Frank Zappa (29)

Quotations by Franklin Roosevelt (78)

Quotations by Franklin P. Jones (19)

Quotations by Franz Kafka (53)

Quotations by Fred Allen (27)

Quotations by Fred Rogers (63)

Quotations by Frederick Buechner (26)

Quotations by Frederick Douglass (43)

Quotations by Frederick Lenz (208)

Quotations by Frederick Lindemann (31)

Quotations by Freeman Dyson (15)

Quotations by Freya Stark (13)

Quotations by Friedrich Nietzsche (292)

Quotations by Friedrich Schiller (50)

Quotations by Fulton J. Sheen (21)

Quotations by Fyodor Dostoevsky (66)

Quotations by G. K. Chesterton (123)

Quotations by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (32)

Quotations by Gali Sheehy (12)

Quotations by Galileo Galilei (16)

Quotations by Garrison Keillor (35)

Quotations by Garth Brooks (11)

Quotations by Gary Chapman (23)

Quotations by Gary Thomas (27)

Quotations by Gary Vaynerchuk (24)

Quotations by Gary Zukav (37)

Quotations by Gaston Bachelard (17)

Quotations by Gayle Forman (14)

Quotations by Gene Perret (22)

Quotations by Gene Roddenberry (29)

Quotations by Geoffrey Chaucer (14)

Quotations by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (22)

Quotations by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (13)

Quotations by George Bernard Shaw (262)

Quotations by George Burns (24)

Quotations by George Carlin (94)

Quotations by George Eliot (167)

Quotations by George Harrison (17)

Quotations by George Herbert (98)

Quotations by George Jean Nathan (13)

Quotations by George Lucas (17)

Quotations by George MacDonald (34)

Quotations by George Meredith (17)

Quotations by George Moore (8)

Quotations by George Orwell (110)

Quotations by George R. R. Martin (59)

Quotations by George S. Patton (27)

Quotations by George Sand (25)

Quotations by George Santayana (79)

Quotations by George W. Bush (45)

Quotations by George Washington (82)

Quotations by George Washington Carver (14)

Quotations by George Will (15)

Quotations by George William Curtis (12)

Quotations by Georges Bernanos (10)

Quotations by Gerard Manley Hopkins (19)

Quotations by Gerard Way (24)

Quotations by Germaine Greer (16)

Quotations by Germany Kent (50)

Quotations by Gertrude Stein (34)

Quotations by Gianni Versace (8)

Quotations by Gift Gugu Mona (20)

Quotations by Giorgio Armani (9)

Quotations by Gloria Steinem (65)

Quotations by Golda Meir (19)

Quotations by Goldie Hawn (16)

Quotations by Gordon B. Hinckley (56)

Quotations by Gore Vidal (25)

Quotations by Graham Greene (40)

Quotations by Greg Behrendt (17)

Quotations by Greg Berlanti (17)

Quotations by Gregory David (13)

Quotations by Grenville Kleiser (16)

Quotations by Gretchen Rubin (17)

Quotations by Groucho Marx (45)

Quotations by Gustav Mahler (10)

Quotations by Gustave Flaubert (37)

Quotations by Guy De Maupassant (13)

Quotations by Guy Finley (23)

Quotations by Guy Kawasaki (23)

Quotations by Gwyneth Paltrow (16)

Quotations by H. G. Wells (22)

Quotations by H. Jackson Brown Jr. (65)

Quotations by H. L. Mencken (115)

Quotations by H. P. Lovecraft (17)

Quotations by Habeeb Akande (15)

Quotations by Hal Borland (19)

Quotations by Hal Elrod (19)

Quotations by Hannah Arendt (34)

Quotations by Hans Christian Andersen (15)

Quotations by Harriet Beecher Stowe (23)

Quotations by Harriet Tubman (6)

Quotations by Harrison Ford (11)

Quotations by Harry Emerson Fosdick (23)

Quotations by Harry S. Truman (50)

Quotations by Haruki Murakami (107)

Quotations by Harvey Fierstein (6)

Quotations by Harvey Mackay (40)

Quotations by Havelock Ellis (15)

Quotations by Hazrat Inayat Khan (19)

Quotations by Hedy Lamarr (15)

Quotations by Heinrich Heine (26)

Quotations by Helen Keller (110)

Quotations by Helen Rowland (56)

Quotations by Henny Youngman (24)

Quotations by Henri Frederic Amiel (53)

Quotations by Henri Matisse (20)

Quotations by Henri Nouwen (36)

Quotations by Henrik Ibsen (12)

Quotations by Henry Adams (21)

Quotations by Henry B. Eyring (13)

Quotations by Henry Cloud (27)

Quotations by Henry David Thoreau (384)

Quotations by Henry Drummond (12)

Quotations by Henry Fielding (24)

Quotations by Henry Ford (96)

Quotations by Henry James (30)

Quotations by Henry Lawson (27)

Quotations by Henry Miller (58)

Quotations by Henry Rollins (51)

Quotations by Henry Van Dyke (35)

Quotations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (142)

Quotations by Henry Ward Beecher (191)

Quotations by Heraclitus (37)

Quotations by Herbert Hoover (25)

Conclusion

Introduction

The main objective of this book series is to provide you an impressive and invaluable collection of English quotes, so as to enhance your general knowledge and maybe even your life.

In this book you will find different quotes of renowned people, with regard to motivational, inspirational and even everyday life topics.

Reading the most relevant quotes will help you see the world in a new paradigm, according to author’s life experiences.

It is important to remember that life is a journey and we all learn from others’ experiences; thus we can discover new insights into what life might be all about.

I hope you find this book very useful and recommend it to your peers!

Good luck!

Quotations by Farshad Asl (16)

Farshad Asl is the Regional Director of Bankers Life in Southern California. He has built on eof the largest sales organizations in the country. Here are some representative quotations by Farshad Asl:

“A 20/20 mindset produces clarity, joy, and peace in your life. It produces results.”

“A good Coach asks great questions to help you remove the obstacles in your mind and to get you back on track in life.”

“Be fast, be first, but never be alone. Nothing can replace the value of teamwork.”

“Communication without clarity is noise. Speak with purpose and you’ll propel your audience to take massive action towards a journey of self-improvement.”

“Don't be a prisoner of the past, become a pioneer of the future.”

“Don't let toxic people sabotage your happiness, ruin your positive attitude, contaminate your mind or destroy your self-confidence. Instead, surround yourself with generous, positive, and nurturing people who will lift you up.”

“If there isn't a struggle, there's no stretch, and therefore no growth. Easy doesn’t change you and comfort won’t challenge you. Coasting isn't a strategy.”

“Life is too short to try and please everyone. Take charge and do what’s right - not what’s popular.”

“Living in thanksgiving daily is a habit; we must open our hearts to love more, we must open our arms to hug more, we must open our eyes to see more and finally, we must live our lives to serve more.”

“Selling is serving, helping others find solutions, impacting lives positively with passion and integrity.”

“Sharing a clear and concise vision spawns a sense of purpose and direction. It attracts success toward you and helps you build an expanding team.”

“The secret to success in business is synergy.”

“The understanding of our position, clarity of the direction, and effectiveness of our actions determine the height of our destination.”

“True leaders take an ordinary person and turn them into an extraordinary performer.”

“We all have the DNA of an entrepreneur. Some are building their own dreams. While most are building other people's dreams. Entrepreneurs are Dream Builders. Are you building yours?”

“When you live with a 20/20 mindset your path is straight, vision is clear, and decisions are precise. You see the bigger picture with a broader view and incorporate different angles and perspectives.”

Quotations by Fawn Weaver (15)

Fawn Weaver is an American entrepreneur, historian and New York Times-bestselling author. Here are some representative quotations by Fawn Weaver:

“A great marriage isn't something that just happens; it's something that must be created.”

“A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.”

“As sure as the sun will rise every morning and set in the evening just the same, I will love you all the days of my life.”

“Connection starves suspicion.”

“Every happily married person I interviewed on my trip was grateful for his or her spouse, thanking God daily for one another.”

“Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It's a choice.”

“Like sunshine in the summer and rain in the winter, I know I can count on my husband to be there through every season of my life.”

“Love is the greatest gift when given. It is the highest honor when received.”

“Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.”

“Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til’ death do us part is the length.”

“No one can go back and change how it started but a new future for any marriage can begin the moment one person begins to invest in it.”

“The beauty of marriage is not always seen from the very beginning but rather as love grows and develops over time.”

“The best time to love with your whole heart is always now, in this moment, because no breath beyond the current is promised.”

“The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little extra every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.”

“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.”

Quotations by Felicity Luckey (30)

Felicity Luckey is the author of the book “Great Minds Think Fit”. Here are some representative quotations by Felicity Luckey:

“Act enthusiastic about running and you will be enthusiastic.”

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference between lacrosse success and lacrosse failure.”

“Baseball players with goals succeed because they know where they're going.”

“Belief in yourself and your cycling goals is the ignition switch that gets you off the sofa and onto your bike.”

“Believe in your baseball dreams and you're halfway to reaching your baseball goals.”

“Believe you can achieve your hockey goals and you're halfway there.”

“Bodybuilders with goals succeed because they know where they're going.”

“Choosing a bodybuilding goal and sticking to it changes everything.”

“Choosing a cycling goal and sticking to it changes everything.”

“Cycling goals are attained not by strength but by perseverance.”

“Cycling is so difficult when you have to and so easy when you want to.”

“Discipline is the bridge between your bodybuilding goals and bodybuilding success.”

“Have confidence in your running ability, and then be tough enough to follow through until you reach your running goals.”

“Hockey goals are attained not by strength but by perseverance.”

“Hockey goals are hockey dreams with deadlines.”

“If you have the right mental attitude, nothing can stop you from achieving your baseball goals.”

“If you put off starting a cycling routine until the time is right, you'll never reach your cycling goals.”

“It is never too late to set another hockey goal or to dream a new hockey dream.”

“Lacrosse goals are attained not by strength but by perseverance.”

“On your path to cycling success, remember to have fun and enjoy the ride.”

“On your path to running success, remember to enjoy the journey.”

“Positive expectations are important for your baseball success because you tend to get what you expect.”

“Set your baseball goals high and don't stop till you get there.”

“Set your bodybuilding goals high and don't stop till you get there.”

“To attain your running goals, imagination is everything. It is a preview of the runner you will be in the future.”

“To get in the best running shape of your life, you have to do something you've never done.”

“When you have running goals you have hope and when you have hope you have everything.”

“You only reach the hockey goals you aim at. Therefore, you might as well aim at reaching your ultimate hockey goals.”

“Your cycling goals should be out of reach but never out of sight.”

“Your running dreams of yesterday are your running hopes of today and the reality of your tomorrow.”

Quotations by Fernando Pessoa (21)

Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher. Here are some representative quotations by Fernando Pessoa:

“As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.”

“Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.”

“But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.”

“Contradiction is the essence of the universe.”

“Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.”

“Fraternity has subtleties.”

“Life is good, but wine is better.”

“Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”

“Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?”

“Our personality should be impenetrable even to ourselves.”

“Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.”

“The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.”

“The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”

“The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.”

“The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!”

“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.”

“There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness.”

“To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.”

“We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.”

“We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.”

Quotations by Flannery O’Connor (25)

Flannery O’Connor was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. Here are some representative quotations by Flannery O’Connor:

“...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.”

“A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.”

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”

“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”

“Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.”

“Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.”

“Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.”

“Free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man.”

“Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.”

“If you live today, you breathe in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkiest logical positivist you ever saw right now.”

“It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.”

“It's easier to bleed than sweat.”

“Kept rattling the ice in her glass, rattling her beads, rattling her bracelet like an impatient pony jingling its harness.”

“Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are.”

“Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.”

“Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.”

“The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.”

“The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.”

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”

“The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.”

“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”

“When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.”

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”

“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”

Quotations by Florence King (14)

Florence King was an American novelist, essayist and columnist. Here are some representative quotations by Florence King:

“A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.”

“Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.”

“Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.”

“Id-fashioned grandmothers take their grandchildren by the hand and lead them into the future. They are safe and kind, and wiser than the child's mother.”

“If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.”

“If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.”

“In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.”

“It takes only one child to raze a village.”

“Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.”

“People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of human error.”

“Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy. If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.”

“There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.”

“True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.”

“We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.”

Quotations by Florence Nightingale (16)

Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Here are some representative quotations by Florence Nightingale:

“A global flu pandemic would kill between seven million and 200 million, depending on which scientist or medical journal you read.”

“And what nursing has to do in either case is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”

“Better to have pain than paralysis.”

“Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended at all even to take in the whole sick population.”

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

“I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death...For years and years, I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.”

“It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.”

“Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses. We must be learning all of our lives.”

“Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.”

“No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse.”

“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”

“Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said the finest of Fine Arts.”

“So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.”

“The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.”

“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”

“Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.”

Quotations by Fran Lebowitz (42)

Fran Lebowitz is an American author, public speaker and occasional actor. Here are some representative quotations by Fran Lebowitz:

“A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.”

“A salad is not a meal, it is a style.”

“Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking a candy from a baby' has never tried taking a candy from a baby.”

“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”

“Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is merely a good excuse not to play football.”

“Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.”

“Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.”

“Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.”

“Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.”

“Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a dance step - it's an old business procedure.”

“Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.”

“Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.”

“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”

“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.”

“Humility is no substitute for a good personality.”

“I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.”

“I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.”

“I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.”

“If I wished to be awakened by Stevie Wonder, I would sleep with Stevie Wonder.”

“If thine enemy offends thee, give his child a drum.”

“If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.”

“If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.”

“If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with ‘Let's Make a Deal’.”

“Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.”

“Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.”

“Los Angeles is a large city like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.”

“My favorite animal is steak.”

“Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.”

“Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.”

“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.”

“Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”

“Romantic love is a mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw...what starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.”

“Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. It makes growing up genuinely worthwhile.”

“Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.”

“The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.”

“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”

“The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.”

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

“Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.”

“Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.”

“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”

“You're only as good as your last haircut.”

Quotations by Francis Bacon (122)

Francis Bacon was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. Here are some representative quotations by Francis Bacon:

“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”

“A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.”

“A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”

“A good conscience is a continual feast.”

“A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.”

“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

“A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.”

“A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.”

“A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.”

“A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.”

“A prudent grateful man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.”

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“Age appears to be best in four things. Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

“All colours will agree in the dark.”

“An ant is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard or garden.”

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”

“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.”

“As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.”

“Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; 't is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort.”

“Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.”

“Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.”

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...”

“Behavior seemeth to me as a garment of the mind, and to have the conditions of a garment. For it ought to be made in fashion; it ought not to be too curious; it ought to be shaped so as to set forth any good making of the mind, and hide any deformity; and above all, it ought not to be too straight, or restrained for exercise or motion.”

“Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.”

“But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.”

“Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.”

“Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.”

“Cleanliness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.”

“Clear and round dealing is the honor of man's nature; and ... mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but embaseth it.”

“Consistency is the foundation of virtue.”

“Death ...openeth the gate to good fame and extinguisheth envy.”

“Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.”

“Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.”

“Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.”

“For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.”

“Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.”

“Friends are thieves of time.”

“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.”

“Great hypocrite are the real atheists.”

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”

“I would live to study, and not study to live.”

“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.”

“If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.”

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”

“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”

“If you can talk about it, why paint it?”

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

“Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.”

“In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.”

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior...A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”

“It is seldom that beautiful persona are otherwise of great virtue.”

“It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.”

“It will not be amiss to distinguish the three kinds and, as it were, grades of ambition in mankind. The first is of those who desire to extend their own power in their native country, a vulgar and degenerate kind. The second is of those who labor to extend the power and dominion of their country among men. This certainly has more dignity, though not less covetousness. But if a man endeavor to establish and extend the power and dominion of the human race itself over the universe, his ambition (if ambition it can be called) is without doubt both a more wholesome and a more noble thing than the other two.”

“Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.”

“Knowledge is power.”

“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.”

“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”

“Money is like muck—not good unless it be spread.”

“Much bending breaks the bow much unbending the mind.”

“Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.”

“Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.”

“Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.”

“New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.”

“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”

“No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.”

“Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.”

“Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.”

“Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.”

“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

“Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfectecth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.”

“Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.”

“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”

“Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.”

“Rebellions of the belly are the worst.”

“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”

“Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.”

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

“Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease.”

“Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.”

“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.”

“Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.”

“Suspicions amongst thoughts, are like bats amongst birds; they never fly but by twilight."”

“The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.”

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

“The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.”

“The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.”

“The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.”

“The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.”

“The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.”

“The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.”

“The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.”

“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”

“The master of superstition is the people, and in all superstition wise men follow fools, and arguments are fitted to practice in a reversed order.”

“The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.”

“The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.”

“The real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new commodities.”

“The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love.”

“The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.”

“The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.”

“The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.”

“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in proportion.”

“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.”

“There is superstition in avoiding superstition.”

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

“They know enough who know how to learn.”

“Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.”

“To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.”

“Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.”

“Virtue is like a rich stone, it's best plain set.”

“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”

“We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.”

“When a judge departs from the letter of the law he becomes a lawbreaker.”

Quotations by Francis Chan (12)

Francis Chan is an American Protestant author, teacher and preacher. Here are some representative quotations by Francis Chan:

“...no worship is better than apathetic worship.”

“Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better.”

“God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.”

“Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.”

“Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.”

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”

“Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.”

“Show true religion, cause words don't relieve.”

“We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.”

“We are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.”

“We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.”

“Worry implies that we don't quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in out lives.”

Quotations by Francis Of Assisi (12)

Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, mystic and preacher. Here are some representative quotations by Francis Of Assisi:

“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away any shadows.”

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”

“For it is in giving that we receive.”

“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”

“Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.”

“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”

“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”

“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

“The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.”

“Water is the mirror of nature.”

“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”

“Where there is injury let me sow pardon.”

Quotations by Francis Quarles (15)

Francis Quarles was an English poet most notable for his emblem book aptly entitled “Emblems”. Here are some representative quotations by Francis Quarles:

“And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.”

“Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.”

“He that has no cross will have no crown.”

“He that sets not his heart on what he possesses, forsaketh all things, though he keep his possessions.”

“Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.”

“If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is believed of none but by itself; the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail nor reason.”

“Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?”

“Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day.”

“Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.”

“Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.”

“Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.”

“Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.”

“The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.”

“The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.”

“Wee spend our mid-day sweat, or mid-night oyle; Wee tyre the night in thought; the day in toyle.”

Quotations by Francois De La Rochefoucauld (146)

Francois De La Rochefoucauld was a noted French moralist and author of maxims and memorirs. Here are some representative quotations by Francois De La Rochefoucauld:

“A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.”

“A good woman is a hidden treasure. Who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.”

“A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.”

“A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.”

“A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.”

“A sure way to arouse love is to love very little yourself.”

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

“Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.”

“All of us have sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.”

“All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.”

“All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”

“Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.”

“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.”

“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much and say nothing.”

“As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.”

“Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.”

“Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.”

“Conceit causes more conversation than wit.”

“Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.”

“Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.”

“Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.”

“Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.”

“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”

“Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.”

“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”

“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”

“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”

“High titles debase, instead of elevate, those who know not how to support them.”

“How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?”

“How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.”

“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”

“Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.”

“Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.”

“If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.”

“If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.”

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”

“If we had no vices ourselves we should take less pleasure in identifying those of others.”

“If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.”

“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”

“In the misfortune of our best friends, we always find something which is not displeasing to us.”

“Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.”

“Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.”

“It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.”

“It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.”

“It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.”

“It is more shameful to distrust your friends than it is to be deceived by them.”

“It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions - a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.”

“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.”

“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”

“Life is a voyage that's homeward bound. Stay on the right path. He that has patience may compass anything.”

“Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.”

“Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.”

“Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.”

“Neither the sun, nor death can be looked at steadily.”

“No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.”

“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”

“Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.”

“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”

“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”

“Only the contemptible fear contempt.”

“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”

“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.”

“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”

“Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.”

“Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.”

“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts.”

“Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.”

“Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.”

“Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.”

“Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.”

“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”

“Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.”

“Simplicity is a delicate imposition.”

“Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.”

“Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.”

“Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.”

“Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.”

“The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.”

“The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.”

“The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”

“The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.”

“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.”

“The evils we do to others give us less pain than those we do to ourselves.”

“The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.”

“The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.”

“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”

“The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.”

“The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.”

“The man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.”

“The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.”

“The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.”

“The most deceitful persons spend their lives in blaming deceit, so as to use it on some great occasion to promote some great interest.”

“The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.”

“The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.”

“The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.”

“The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.”

“The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.”

“The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.”

“The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.”

“The renown of great men should always be measured by the means which they have used to acquire it.”

“The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.”

“The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.”

“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”

“The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.”

“The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.”

“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

“The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.”

“There are crimes which become innocent, and even glorious, through their splendor, number, and excess: Hence it is, that public theft is called Address, and to seize on Provinces unjustly, to make Conquests.”

“There are different kinds of curiosity; one of interest, which causes us to learn that which would be useful to us; and the other of pride, which springs from a desire to know that of which others are ignorant.”

“There are few good women who do not tire of their role.”

“There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.”

“There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.”

“There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.”

“There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.”

“There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.”

“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand of imitations.”

“Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.”