English Quotations Complete Collection: Volume V 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 V

-5907 quotations-

From Herbert Spencer to John Steinbeck

Daniel B. Smith

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Table of contents

Introduction

Quotations by Herbert Spencer (24)

Quotations by Herman Hesse (16)

Quotations by Herman Melville (48)

Quotations by Herodotus (16)

Quotations by Hesiod (14)

Quotations by Heywood Broun (9)

Quotations by Hilaire Belloc (13)

Quotations by Hillary Clinton (50)

Quotations by Hippocrates (35)

Quotations by Homer (63)

Quotations by Horace (113)

Quotations by Horace Mann (30)

Quotations by Hosea Ballou (29)

Quotations by Howard Schultz (25)

Quotations by Howard Thurman (11)

Quotations by Howard Zinn (15)

Quotations by Hubert Humphrey (15)

Quotations by Hunter Thompson (53)

Quotations by Ian Fleming (18)

Quotations by Idowu Koyenikan (25)

Quotations by Idries Shah (33)

Quotations by Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha (20)

Quotations by Immanuel Kant (54)

Quotations by Indira Gandhi (20)

Quotations by Iris Murdoch (32)

Quotations by Irving Berlin (14)

Quotations by Isaac Asimov (70)

Quotations by Isaac Bashevis Singer (16)

Quotations by Isaac Newton (16)

Quotations by Isabel Allende (25)

Quotations by Israelmore Ayivor (238)

Quotations by Italo Calvino (17)

Quotations by Iyanla Vanzant (62)

Quotations by J. K. Rowling (79)

Quotations by J. Paul Getty (12)

Quotations by J. R. R. Tolkien (59)

Quotations by J. D. Salinger (15)

Quotations by J. M. Barrie (31)

Quotations by Jack Canfield (52)

Quotations by Jack Handey (14)

Quotations by Jack Kerouac (43)

Quotations by Jack Kornfield (37)

Quotations by Jack Lalanne (12)

Quotations by Jack London (19)

Quotations by Jack Nicklaus (19)

Quotations by Jack Welch (41)

Quotations by Jackie Chan (15)

Quotations by Jackie Joyner Kersee (7)

Quotations by Jacques Barzun (17)

Quotations by Jacques Ellul (15)

Quotations by Jacques Yves Cousteau (22)

Quotations by Jaggi Vasudev (28)

Quotations by James A. Baldwin (62)

Quotations by James A. Garfield (15)

Quotations by James A. Murphy (54)

Quotations by James Allen (49)

Quotations by James Altucher (17)

Quotations by James Beard (15)

Quotations by James Cash Penney (18)

Quotations by James Dean (9)

Quotations by James E. Faust (24)

Quotations by James Frey (39)

Quotations by James Joyce (34)

Quotations by James Madison (32)

Quotations by James Patterson (23)

Quotations by James Russell Lowell (55)

Quotations by James Stephens (12)

Quotations by James Thurber (27)

Quotations by James Whitcomb Riley (26)

Quotations by Jane Addams (17)

Quotations by Jane Austen (105)

Quotations by Jane Fonda (21)

Quotations by Jane Goodall (24)

Quotations by Jane Smiley (16)

Quotations by Janet Fitch (19)

Quotations by Jarod Kintz (74)

Quotations by Jason Edward Shiffman (25)

Quotations by Jawaharlal Nehru (24)

Quotations by Jay Leno (26)

Quotations by Jean Anouilh (14)

Quotations by Jean Baudrillard (30)

Quotations by Jean Cocteau (39)

Quotations by Jean De La Bruyere (54)

Quotations by Jean De La Fontaine (26)

Quotations by Jean Giraudoux (11)

Quotations by Jean Kerr (11)

Quotations by Jean Paul (31)

Quotations by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (50)

Quotations by Jean-Paul Sartre (47)

Quotations by Jeanette Winterson (45)

Quotations by Jeanne Moreau (11)

Quotations by Jeff Bezos (27)

Quotations by Jeff Bridges (17)

Quotations by Jeff Foxworthy (25)

Quotations by Jeffrey Eugenides (14)

Quotations by Jeffrey Gitomer (16)

Quotations by Jeffrey Kluger (14)

Quotations by Jenna Kandyce Linch (12)

Quotations by Jennifer Aniston (20)

Quotations by Jennifer Lopez (13)

Quotations by Jeremy Bentham (12)

Quotations by Jeremy Taylor (23)

Quotations by Jerome Kerviel (22)

Quotations by Jerry Seinfeld (34)

Quotations by Jess C. Scott (12)

Quotations by Jesse Jackson (28)

Quotations by Jesse Ventura (17)

Quotations by Jiddu Krishnamurti (49)

Quotations by Jillian Michaels (11)

Quotations by Jim Butcher (22)

Quotations by Jim Carrey (22)

Quotations by Jim Gaffigan (18)

Quotations by Jim Morrison (26)

Quotations by Jim Rohn (165)

Quotations by Jimi Hendrix (19)

Quotations by Jimmy Buffett (28)

Quotations by Jimmy Carter (29)

Quotations by Jimmy Fallon (16)

Quotations by Joan Collins (10)

Quotations by Joan Crawford (7)

Quotations by Joan Didion (26)

Quotations by Joan Rivers (28)

Quotations by Jodi Picoult (87)

Quotations by Joe Abercrombie (11)

Quotations by Joe Biden (18)

Quotations by Joe Paterno (11)

Quotations by Joe Rogan (15)

Quotations by Joel Osteen (120)

Quotations by Johann Kaspar (23)

Quotations by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (268)

Quotations by John Adams (42)

Quotations by John Barrymore (14)

Quotations by John Bartlett (24)

Quotations by John Berger (18)

Quotations by John Bradshaw (16)

Quotations by John Bunyan (19)

Quotations by John Burroughs (32)

Quotations by John C. Maxwell (148)

Quotations by John Calvin (37)

Quotations by John Clare (17)

Quotations by John Cleese (13)

Quotations by John D. Rockefeller (23)

Quotations by John Davidson (15)

Quotations by John Dewey (40)

Quotations by John Donne (26)

Quotations by John Dryden (64)

Quotations by John F. Kennedy (127)

Quotations by John Fowles (18)

Quotations by John Gay (17)

Quotations by John Gray (10)

Quotations by John Green (90)

Quotations by John Greenleaf Whittier (44)

Quotations by John Heywood (38)

Quotations by John Irving (22)

Quotations by John Keats (58)

Quotations by John Kenneth Galbraith (35)

Quotations by John Le Carre (24)

Quotations by John Lennon (54)

Quotations by John Locke (43)

Quotations by John Lubbock (18)

Quotations by John Lydon (17)

Quotations by John Mark Green (13)

Quotations by John Mayer (16)

Quotations by John Maynard Keynes (15)

Quotations by John Milton (76)

Quotations by John Muir (50)

Quotations by John O’Donohue (19)

Quotations by John Ortberg (20)

Quotations by John Piper (24)

Quotations by John Quincy Adams (12)

Quotations by John Ruskin (81)

Quotations by John Steinbeck (76)

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 Herbert Spencer (24)

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist and sociologist. Here are some representative quotations by Herbert Spencer:

“A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.”

“A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.”

“Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.”

“Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence.”

“All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.”

“Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.”

“Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.”

“Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.”

“Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent, homogeneity to a definite, coherent, heterogeneity, through continuous differentiations and integrations.”

“Hero-worship is strongest where there is at least regard for human freedom.”

“How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.”

“Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.”

“Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.”

“Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.”

“Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.”

“No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.”

“Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.”

“Progress therefore is not an accident, but a necessity. It is part of nature.”

“That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.”

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”

“The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.”

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is contempt prior to examination.”

“What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.”

Quotations by Herman Hesse (16)

Herman Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter. Here are some representative quotations by Herman Hesse:

“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”

“Each man's life represents a road toward himself.”

“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”

“Even the most obscure hermit in the forest was not utterly alone; he too was enfolded in belonging.”

“For each truth, the contrary is also true!”

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”

“It is not our purpose to become each other, it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other, and honor him for what he is.”

“Science can be communicated, wisdom cannot.”

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”

“Some relationships are like glass. It's better to leave it broken, than to hurt yourself more by picking it up and trying to put it back together.”

“The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.”

“The river has taught me to listen, from it you will learn it as well. It knows everything, the river, everything can be learned from it. See, you've already learned this from the water too, that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depth.”

“There is no reality except the one contained within us.”

“Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.”

“Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”

Quotations by Herman Melville (48)

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. Here are some representative quotations by Herman Melville:

“A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.”

“A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.”

“A laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer.”

“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”

“A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.”

“A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”

“About the Shark, phlegmatical one,Pale sot of the Maldive sea. The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim, how alert in attendance be.”

“An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”

“Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.”

“Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?”

“Envy...since it’s lodgement is in the heart, not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it.”

“Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.”

“For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.”

“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”

“Gold in the mountain, And gold in the glen, And greed in the heart, Heaven having no part, And unsatisfied men.”

“Great towers take time to construct.”

“He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.”

“I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.”

“I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.”

“If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.”

“Immortality is but ubiquity in time.”

“Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.”

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”

“One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocent self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.”

“Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.”

“Real strength never impairs beauty of harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.”

“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”

“The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.”

“The evening of the last day of the week was always celebrated by what is styled on board of English vessels, 'The Saturday Night Bottles.' Two of these were sent down into the forecastle, just after dark; one for the starboard watch, and the other for the larboard.”

“The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.”

“The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.”

“The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.”

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”

“There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.”

“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about the sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.”

“There's magic in the water that draws all men away from the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.”

“There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.”

“To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.”

“To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”

“War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.”

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

“We rovers bold, To the land of Gold, Over the bowling billows are gliding: Eager to toil, For the golden spoil.”

“When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.”

“Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided. Two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.”

Quotations by Herodotus (16)

Herodotus was an ancient Greek writer, geographer and historian born in the Greek city of Halicarnassus. Here are some representative quotations by Herodotus:

“A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.”

“Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.”

“Cotton is almost pure cellulose, with softness and breathability that have made it the world 's most popular natural fibre.”

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”

“How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.”

“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”

“In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.”

“It is better to be envied than pitied.”

“It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.”

“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.”

“Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.”

“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”

“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”

“The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.”

“The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.”

“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.”

Quotations by Hesiod (14)

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. Here are some representative quotations by Hesiod:

“A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.”

“A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.”

“A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.”

“An evil plan does mischief to the planner.”

“He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.”

“It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.”

“It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.”

“It will not always be summer; build barns.”

“Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.”

“Never make a companion equal to a brother.”

“Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.”

“The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.”

“The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.”

“When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.”

Quotations by Heywood Broun (9)

Heywood Broun was an American journalist. Here are some representative quotations by Heywood Broun:

“Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.”

“Every conviction was a whim at birth.”

“His mind is so open that the wind whistles through it.”

“I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.”

“Men build bridges and thow railroads across deserts, yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.”

“Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.”

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

“The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.”

“We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart.”

Quotations by Hilaire Belloc (13)

Hilaire Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Here are some representative quotations by Hilaire Belloc:

“A smell of burning fills the startled air, The electrician is no longer there!”

“All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.”

“Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.”

“Be kind and tender to the Frog and do not call him names.”

“If there is one portion of Europe which was made by the sea more than another, Portugal is that slice, that portion, that belt. Portugal was made by the atlantic.”

“Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, It made one Gasp and Stretch one’s Eyes; Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth, Attempted to Believe Matilda: The effort very nearly killed her.”

“Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.”

“Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.”

“The Frog is justly sensitive to epithets like these. No animal will more repay a treatment kind and fair. At least so lonely people say who keep a frog (and, by the way,they are extremely rare).”

“The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.”

“The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.”

“The term socialism becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family, and individual freedom.”

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

Quotations by Hillary Clinton (50)

Hillary Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state. Here are some representative quotations by Hillary Clinton:

“Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.”

“Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.”

“Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.”

“Climate change is such a consequential crisis to everybody in the world.”

“Don't confuse having a career with having a life.”

“Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.”

“Every moment wasted looking back, keep us from moving forward.”

“Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.”

“Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.”

“I don't spend my hours plotting for somebody else's downfall.”

“I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion.”

“I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.”

“I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.”

“I think that trade is an important issue. Of course, we are 5 percent of the world's population; we have to trade with the other 95 percent. And we need to have smart, fair trade deals.”

“I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.”

“In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.”

“In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.”

“In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.”

“It takes a village to raise a child.”

“Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.”

“LGBT Americans are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship - that includes marriage.”

“Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law-end of story.”

“Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds to explore and challenges to tackle, the possibilities are endless. Music education should not be a privilege for a lucky few, it should be a part of every child's world of possiblity.”

“No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.”

“No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.”

“Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.”

“Oh I know it well, love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.”

“Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.”

“Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.”

“Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.”

“Somebody who attacks everybody has something missing.”

“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.”

“The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”

“The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.”

“There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.”

“There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.”

“There's a difference between fair game and playing games.”

“To all the little girls who are watching, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.”

“Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.”

“We can have enough clean energy to power every home.”

“We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.”

“We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.”

“What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.”

“When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions? Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices people are struggling with those profound issues.”

“When women participate in the economy, everyone benefits.”

“When women thrive, economies thrive.”

“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.”

“You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.”

“You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.”

“You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.”

Quotations by Hippocrates (35)

Hippocrates was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. Here are some representative quotations by Hippocrates:

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”

“Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.”

“Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”

“Divine is the task to relieve pain.”

“Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.”

“Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.”

“Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.”

“He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.”

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”

“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have the safest way to health.”

“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.”

“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.”

“It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.”

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

“Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.”

“Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.”

“Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end to divine things.”

“Opposites are cures for opposites.”

“Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.”

“Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.”

“Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.”

“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”

“Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.”

“Stop wishing. Start doing.”

“The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.”

“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”

“The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.”

“The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.”

“The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings.”

“Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.”

“Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.”

“Walking is man's best medicine.”

“What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.”

“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”

“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.”

Quotations by Homer (63)

Homer was the reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Here are some representative quotations by Homer:

“A companion's words of persuasion are effective.”

“A decent boldness ever meets with friends.”

“A generation of men is like a generation of leaves: the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth — and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.”

“A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.”

“A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.”

“A little child born yesterday a thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.”

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”

“Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.”

“Be generous in the bedroom. Share your sandwich.”

“Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”

“Be strong, saith my heart I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.”

“By mutual confidence and mutual aid, great deeds are done, and great discoveries are made.”

“By their own follies they perished, the fools.”

“Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.”

“Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power.”

“Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

“Far from the gay cities, and the ways of men.”

“For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.”

“Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.”

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”

“Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.”

“I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.”

“I didn’t lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!”

“I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.”

“It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.”

“It is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool _ it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.”

“Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.”

“Light is the task where many share the toil.”

“Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, now green in youth, now withering on the ground.”

“Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.”

“Noblest minds are easiest bent.”

“Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.”

“Our value lies in what we are and what we have been, not in our ability to recite the recent past.”

“Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.”

“Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.”

“Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.”

“Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.”

“Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.”

“Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.”

“Tell me, muse, of the of many resources who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy, and he saw the cities and learned the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes.”

“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.”

“The force of union conquers all.”

“The rule of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.”

“The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.”

“The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.”

“The worst cowards, banded together, have their power.”

“There is no more trusting in women.”

“There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.”

“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye, keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

“Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?”

“Too many kings can ruin an army.”

“Waiting is as resistant to description and analysis as time or boredom.”

“We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths.”

“Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.”

“Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.”

“Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins.”

“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”

“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.”

“Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.”

“Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.”

“Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.”

“Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!”

Quotations by Horace (113)

Horace was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. Here are some representative quotations by Horace:

“A crafty knave needs no broker.”

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”

“A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.”

“A picture is a poem without words.”

“A vase is begun; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out a pitcher?”

“A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.”

“A word once uttered can never be recalled.”

“All in good time.”

“Anger is a short madness.”

“Anger is brief madness.”

“Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”

“As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.”

“Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.”

“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”

“Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.”

“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”

“Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.”

“Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, who ventures life and soul upon the dice.”

“Death is the last limit of all things.”

“Do you count your birthdays thankfully?”

“Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.”

“Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule may stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.”

“Fidelity is the sister of justice.”

“Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.”

“Fools, through false shame, conceal their open wounds.”

“For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.”

“For it is your business. when the wall next door catches fire.”

“Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.”

“Gold will be slave or master.”

“Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, to thy worst, for I have liv’d today.”

“He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.”

“He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.”

“He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.”

“He who is greedy is always in want.”

“He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.”

“Healthy eating is a way of life, so it’s important to establish routines that are simple, realistically, and ultimately livable.”

“Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.”

“I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.”

“If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.”

“If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.”

“If possible honestly, if not, somehow make money.”

“If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.”

“In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.”

“In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.”

“In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.”

“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.”

“It is delightful to play the fool.”

“It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.”

“It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.”

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”

“Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone.”

“Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.”

“Learn calm to face what's pressing.”

“Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.”

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”

“Live mindful of how brief your life is.”

“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.”

“Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.”

“Nothing is an umixed blessing.”

“Nothing is swifter than rumor.”

“Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.”

“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”

“Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.”

“Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.”

“Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.”

“Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.”

“Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.”

“Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.”

“Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.”

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

“Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.”

“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”

“Small things become small folks.”

“Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.”

“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”

“The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.”

“The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning, or exquisite flavor, but in yourself.”

“The clown waits for the river to run itself dry.”

“The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is entrusted to them.”

“The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.”

“The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.”

“The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.”

“The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing.”

“The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.”

“The mob will now and then see things in a right light.”

“The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.”

“The ridiculous is more easily retained than the admirable.”

“The stingy are always in need.”

“The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.”

“The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.”

“The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.”

“The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.”

“The words can not return.”

“There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.”

“These trifles will lead to serious mischief.”

“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”

“Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.”

“Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.”

“We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.”

“We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.”

“What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.”

“What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.”

“What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.”

“When life's path is steep, keep your mind even.”

“When you introduce a moral lesson let it be brief.”

“Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.”

“While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.”

“Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moments on ambush.”

“Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.”

“Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?”

“Works of serious purpose and grand promises often have a purple patch or two stitched on, to shine far and wide.”

“You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back.”

Quotations by Horace Mann (30)

Horace Mann was an American educational reformer and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education. Here are some representative quotations by Horace Mann:

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”

“A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.”

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

“Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.”

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

“Benevolence is a world of itself a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.”

“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”

“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”

“Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.”

“False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.”

“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.”

“Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which.”

“If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.”

“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”

“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”

“Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.”

“It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.”

“Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.”

“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.”

“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”

“Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience and care.”

“The Borough Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and the last we cannot break it.”

“The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.”

“The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.”

“They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.”

“To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.”

“To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”

“Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.”

“We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.”

“Wealth which breeds idleness ... is only a sort of human oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worm's banquet.”

Quotations by Hosea Ballou (29)

Hosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. Here are some representative quotations by Hosea Ballou:

“A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.”

“Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.”

“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.”

“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”

“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”

“Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.”

“Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blamable.”

“God's glowing covenant.”

“Hatred is self-punishment.”

“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.”

“It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.”

“It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.”

“Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment.”

“Never be so brief as to become obscure.”

“Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.”

“Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.”

“Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.”

“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”

“Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.”

“Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.”

“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”

“The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.”

“The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of it's tears.”

“Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.”

“To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.”

“Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.”

“True repentance also involves reform.”

“We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.”

“You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.”

Quotations by Howard Schultz (25)

Howard Schultz is an American businessman and author. Here are some representative quotations by Howard Schultz:

“Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.”

“Business leaders cannot be bystanders.”

“Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a stimulant. But if you drink it in moderation, which I think four or five cups a day is, you're fine.”

“Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.”

“Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.”

“I can't imagine a day without coffee. I can't imagine!”

“I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.”

“I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger.”

“I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.”

“If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.”