Famous English Quotations

G	"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it  within themselves."	Galileo Gallilei
	"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."	Mahatma Gandhi
	"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means  getting along with people."	Mahatma Gandhi
	"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."	Mahatma Gandhi
	"Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever."	Mahatma Gandhi
	"Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."	Bill Gates
	"Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence."	Charles de Gaulle
	"Graveyards are full of indispensable men."	Charles de Gaulle
	"Formula for success : rise early, work hard, strike oil."	J. Paul Getty
	"Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children"	J. Paul Getty
	"If you can actually count your money then you are not a rich man."	J. Paul Getty
	"All the world over I will back the masses against the classes."	William Gladstone
	"Enjoy when you can and endure when you must."	J.W. van Goethe
	"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.   Willing is not enough; we must do."	J.W. van Goethe
	"Whatever you can do or dream, begin it."	J.W. van Goethe
	"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days."	J.W. van Goethe
	"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."	J.W. van Goethe
H	"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."	Stephen Hawking
	"Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it."	Stephen Hawking
	"Never confuse movement with action."	Ernest Hemmingway
	"There is no better friend than a book."	Ernest Hemmingway
	"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."	Alfred Hitchcock
	"Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow."	Horace
	"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."	Victor Hugo
	"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."	Victor Hugo
	"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."	Victor Hugo
	"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the  servant."	Victor Hugo
	"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with  what happens to him."	Aldous Huxley
	"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."	Aldous Huxley
J	"In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand  like a rock."	Thomas Jefferson
	"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."	Samuel Johnson
	"Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."	Samuel Johnson
	"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without  integrity is dangerous and dreadful.	Samuel Johnson
	"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."	Samuel Johnson
	"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him  absolutely no good."	Samuel Johnson
	"When making your choices in life, do not forget to live."	Samuel Johnson

K	"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."	Immanuel Kant
	"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."	John F. Kennedy
	"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two  characters. One represents danger, the other represents opportunity."	John F. Kennedy
	"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."	John F. Kennedy
	"Liberty without learning is always in peril;  learning without liberty is  always in vain."	John F. Kennedy
	"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why...  I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"	Robert Kennedy
	"Education : the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent  by the incompetent.	John Maynard Keynes
	"In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the  silence of our friends."	Martin Luther King
	"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."	Rudyard Kipling
	"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."	Rudyard Kipling
	"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."	Rudyard Kipling
	"He travels the fastest who travels alone."	Rudyard Kipling
	"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously."	Henry Kissinger
	"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they  think it's their fault."	Henry Kissinger
L	"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive  without human affection."	Dalai Lama
	"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."	John Lennon
	"In the end it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your  years."	Abraham Lincoln
	"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's  character, give him power."	Abraham Lincoln
	"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."	Abraham Lincoln
	"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people  all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."	Abraham Lincoln
M	"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the  enemy until it is ripe for execution."	Niccolo Machiavelli
	"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."	Somerset Maugham
	"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late."	Somerset Maugham
	"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."	Moliere
	"To the soul there is hardly anything more healing than friendship."	Thomas Moore

N	"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."	Isaac Newton
	"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the  same good things for the first time."	Friedrich Nietzsche
	"What doesn't kill you will make you stronger."	Friedrich Nietzsche
	"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."	Friedrich Nietzsche
	"We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are."	Anais Nin
	"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."	Anais Nin
O	"Burdens become light when cheerfully borne."	Ovid
P	"In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind."	Louis Pasteur
	"Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit."	William Penn
	"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."	William Penn
	"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste."	Pablio Picasso
	"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."	Plutarch
	"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."	Alexander Pope
	"The voyage to discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having  new eyes."	Marcel Proust
R	"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror."	Francois Rabelais
	"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead."	Thomas Brackett Reed
	"The customer is never wrong."	Cesar Ritz
	"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life."	F.W. Robertson
	"Many people despise wealth but few know how to give it away."	F. de la Rochefoucauld
	"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."	F. de la Rochefoucauld
	"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."	Eleanor Roosevelt
	"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."	Franklin D. Roosevelt
	"Rules are not necessarily sacred; principles are."	Franklin D. Roosevelt
	"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."	Franklin D. Roosevelt
	"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does  anything."	Theodore Roosevelt
	"If it can't be cured it must be endured."	Salman Rushdie
	"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."	John Ruskin

S	"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but  when there is nothing left to take away."	Antoine de St Exupery
	"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other  but in looking outward together in the same direction.	Antoine de St Exupery
	"Hell is other people."	Jean-Paul Sartre
	"It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create."	John Saxe
	"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."	Sir Walter Scott
	"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."	Lucius Annaeus Seneca
	"Life is a play.  It's not its length but its performance that counts."	Lucius Annaeus Seneca
	"Action is eloquence."	William Shakespeare
	"All that glitters is not gold."	William Shakespeare
	"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."	William Shakespeare
	"Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners."	William Shakespeare
	"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."	William Shakespeare
	"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the  support of Paul."	George Bernard Shaw
	"Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a  common language."	George Bernard Shaw
	"The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty."	George Bernard Shaw
	"Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children!"	George Bernard Shaw
	"Martyrdom ... is the only way in which a man can become famous  without ability."	George Bernard Shaw
	"We don't stop playing because we grow; we grow old because we  stop playing."	George Bernard Shaw
	"Reasonable men adapt to the world. Unreasonable men adapt  the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on  unreasonable men."	George Bernard Shaw
	"Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?"	Alexander Solzhenitsyn
	"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds  you plant!"	Robert Louis Stevenson
	"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is  thought necessary."	Robert Louis Stevenson
	"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.	Jonathan Swift
	"May you live every day of your life."	Jonathan Swift
T	"I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion, than by  an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep."	Talleyrand
	"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."	Alfred Lord Tennyson
	"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."	William Thackery
	"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done,  ask a woman."	Margaret Thatcher
	"It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for  its own sake."	Margaret Thatcher
	"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."	Margaret Thatcher
	"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."	Margaret Thatcher
	"Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another."	Leo Tolstoy
	"Be careful of reading health books. You may die of a misprint."	Mark Twain
	"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you  nothing. It was here first."	Mark Twain
	"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a  fool than to open it and remove all doubt."	Mark Twain
	"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."	Mark Twain

U	"The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure."	Unknown
	"The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack."	Unknown
	"Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it."	Unknown
	"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."	Unknown
	"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."	Unknown
	"The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what  one does."	Unknown
	"Only those who keep trying eventually win."	Unknown
	"Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done  right is an achievement."	Unknown
	"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."	Unknown
	"The best time to do something worthwhile is between yesterday and  tomorrow."	Unknown
V	"Conscience is a man's compass."	Vinvent Van Gogh
	"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not as rapid as that of man to  error."	Voltaire
	"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."	Voltaire
	"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."	Voltaire
	"The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks."	Voltaire
	"Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one."	Voltaire
	"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."	Voltaire
	"Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too."	Voltaire
W	"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to get rid of it."	Oscar Wilde
	"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."	Oscar Wilde
	"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."	Oscar Wilde
	"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."	Oscar Wilde
	"Wisdom is knowing how little we know."	Oscar Wilde
	"To live is the rarest thing in the world.  Most people exist, that's all."	Oscar Wilde
	"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the  young know everything."	Oscar Wilde
	"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."	Oscar Wilde
	"There are only two tragedies in life : one is not getting what one wants,  the other is getting it."	Oscar Wilde
	"True friends stab you in the front."	Oscar Wilde
	"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every  six months."	Oscar Wilde
	"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."	Tennessee Williams
Y	"Education is not the filling of a pail but rather the lighting of a fire."	William Butler Yeats
Z	"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."	Emile Zola