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36 BCS Preparation: English

এই পিপিএফ টিতে পিপিএি এর পিতেিাি অনুিাতর English Literature এর Quotations

এিং সিই িাতে ি্াংক, নন-ক্ািার ও অন্ান্ চাকুরীর জন্ পকছু গুরুত্বিূনন
Quotations add করা আতছ । আশা কপর আিনাতের উিকাতর আিতি। যপে কাতরা
িুঝতে িমি্া হয় োহতে গ্রুি সিাতে কতমন্ট করতিন, িিার িুস্বাস্থ্্ ও মঙ্গে কামনা
করপছ ।

 Quotations from Drama/Poetry of different ages.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music
dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American author and poet.

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you
will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the
remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides
hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader;
the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining
authors.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist.

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope
to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Salman Rushdie (1948-?) Anglo-Indian novelist.

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A book worth reading is worth buying.

John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works
as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it
out the window.

William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist and short-story writer.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question
is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity,
and turn you inside out or outside in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.

When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about
yourself as much as I can face about myself.

James Baldwin (1924-1987) African-American writer.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like
true friends, they will never fail us, never cease to instruct, never cloy.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British clergyman, sportsman and author.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-43 BC) Writer, politician and great roman orator.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was
before.

Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999) American editor and writer.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer and historian.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.

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Read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) French novelist.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes
from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist.

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere
consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) New Zealand-born English short story writer.

A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) British statesman.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British clergyman, sportsman and author.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred
pages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of
language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) French philosopher and poet.

Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher.

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of
logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Louis Aragon (1897-1982) French poet, novelist, and essayist.

In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) British politician, poet and critic.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Samuel Butler (1612-1680) British poet and satirist.

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian and essayist.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.

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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any
other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady
intention almost of the whole life to this object.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will
explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in
which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

Salman Rushdie (1948-?) Anglo-Indian novelist.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the
toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Henry Miller (1891-1980) American author.

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own
laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there, that of the pulse, the heart
beat.

Henry Miller (1891-1980) American author.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless
scholars in the world.

William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader.

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are
drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing
and hearing nothing.

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, satirist and social critic.

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose
progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

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John Milton (1608-1674) English poet.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British novelist and playwright.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.

My library was dukedom large enough.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) British poet and playwright.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) American author.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or
private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Henry Miller (1891-1980) American author.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) British clergyman and author.

The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American philosopher and author.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than
assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole
damn life --and one is as good as the other.

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Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.

All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when
you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected
as a form of the pursuit of happiness.

Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you
have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the
outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Henry James (1843-1916) American author.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it
be interesting.

Henry James (1843-1916) American author.

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American author and poet.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American editor, publisher, and author of the mora

A library implies an act of faith.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist.

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification of words.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative
recompense has been yet granted to very few.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is
human existence?

Milan Kundera (1929-?) Czech writer.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist.

Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English writer.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks
us aside. Alas!

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English writer.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English writer.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English writer.

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Literature is analysis after the event.

Doris Lessing (1919-?) British writer.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly
collapsing.

Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication
have been repulsed.

Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile.

The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of
human things.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British novelist and playwright.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Politician. President of the United States.

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings --as some savage tribes determine the
power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) U.S. poet.

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious
hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the
amiable self assertion of youth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) U.S. poet.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American poet, critic and editor.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American poet, critic and editor.

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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) British novelist.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French author and filmmaker.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for
distraction.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) British poet.

Books succeed, and lives fail.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) British poet.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is
good, and made by a good workman.

Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) French satiric moralist.

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) British politician, poet and critic.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity:
it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much
because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Argentine writer, essayist, and poet.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.

Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian and essayist.

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the
collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian and essayist.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university
of these days is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian and essayist.

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Quotation Author
A "After all is said and done, more is said than done." Aesop
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force." Aesop
"United we stand, divided we fall." Aesop
"When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." Gracie Allen
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing
Woody Allen
anything very innovative."
"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once." Woody Allen

"The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do." Anonymous

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"Love is not about who you live with. It's about who you can't live
Anonymous
without."
"A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks
Anonymous
out"
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the
Anonymous
doorbell."
"Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior
Anonymous
work."
"Wit is educated insolence." Aristotle
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." Aristotle
"One swallow does not make the spring." Aristotle
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do." Aristotle
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening
Aristotle
fruit."
"There is safety in numbers." Anonymous

B "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." Sir Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is power." Sir Francis Bacon

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Sir Francis Bacon
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." Honore de Balzac
"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and
Honore de Balzac
taking action."
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." Orlando A. Battisa
"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you
Charles Baudelaire
dare not start.
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and
Alexander Graham
so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which
Bell
has opened for us."
"Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory." Ingrid Bergman
"Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from
Otto von Bismarck
the mistakes of others.
"Ability is nothing without opportunity." Napoleon Bonaparte
"Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever." Napoleon Bonaparte

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." Jacques Bossuet
"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. H. Jackson Brown,
It means they know another language.” Jr.
Quotation Author
C "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." Miguel de Cervantes
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit
Coco Chanel
the face you have at fifty."
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." Coco Chanel
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." G.K. Chesterton
"A woman used her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition." G.K. Chesterton
"I married an archaeologist because the older I grow the more he
Agatha Christie
appreciates me."
"Very few of us are what we seem." Agatha Christie
"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single
Winston Churchill
words : freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get
Winston Churchill
its pants on."
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees
Winston Churchill
the opportunity in every difficulty."
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of
Winston Churchill
enthusiasm."
"If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Winston Churchill
"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill
"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." Winston Churchill
"You have enemies? Good.
Winston Churchill
That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." Cicero
"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its
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predecessors."
"I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those you
Jean Cocteau
dislike?"
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your
Conficius
life.

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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Conficius

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Conficius
"Respect yourself and others will respect you." Conficius
"The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct." Conficius
"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood." Marie Curie

D "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." Salvador Dali
"Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it." Salvador Dali
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
Charles Darwin
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." Marlene Dietrich
"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." Benjamin Disraeli
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches,
Benjamin Disraeli
but reveal to him his own."
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." Benjamin Disraeli
"Little things affect little minds." Benjamin Disraeli
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." Benjamin Disraeli
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose." Benjamin Disraeli
"Success is the child of audacity." Benjamin Disraeli
"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together; at the door where the
Alexandre Dumas
latter enters, the former makes its exit.
"All for one and one for all." Alexandre Dumas
E "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
"Creativity is contagious, pass it on." Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and
Albert Einstein
I'm not sure about the former."
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
Albert Einstein
counts can be counted."
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its
Albert Einstein
limits."
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Albert Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." Albert Einstein
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a
Albert Einstein
tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre

Albert Einstein
minds."
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." Albert Einstein
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." Albert Einstein
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." Albert Einstein
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." Albert Einstein
"When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. Albert Einstein
That's relativity."
"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play
Albert Einstein
better than anyone else."
“You don’t really understand something unless you can explain it to
Albert Einstein
your grandmother.”
Ralph Waldo
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
Emerson
Ralph Waldo
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Emerson
"In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other
Euripedes
side."
"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." Euripedes

"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth, and that is why we call
F William Faulkner
what he writes fiction."
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." Henry Ford
"Don't find fault, find a remedy." Henry Ford
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
Henry Ford
off your goal."
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." Henry Ford
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living
Malcolm Forbes
at doing what they most enjoy."
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not
Anatole France
only plan but also believe."
"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." Benjamin Franklin
“In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.” Benjamin Franklin
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." Benjamin Franklin
"Most fools think they are only ignorant." Benjamin Franklin

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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." Benjamin Franklin
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad
Anna Freud
training."
"Men are more moral than they think, and far more immoral that they
Sigmund Freud
can imagine."
"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it
G Galileo Gallilei
within themselves."
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." Mahatma Gandhi
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means
Mahatma Gandhi
getting along with people."
“There is enough on earth for everybody’s need, but not for everyone’s
Mahatma Gandhi
greed.”
"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.
J.W. van Goethe
Willing is not enough; we must do."
"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

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do
H Stephen Hawking
and succeed at."
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." Stephen Hawking
"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny." Stephen Hawking
"Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it." Stephen Hawking
Ernest
"Never confuse movement with action."
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Ernest
"There is no better friend than a book."
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
Victor Hugo
servant."
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with
Aldous Huxley
what happens to him."
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." Aldous Huxley

"In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand
J Thomas Jefferson
like a rock."
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." Steve Jobs
"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's Steve Jobs
what matters to me."
"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
Samuel Johnson
integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
"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
Samuel Johnson
absolutely no good."
"When making your choices in life, do not forget to live." Samuel Johnson
K "Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life." Immanuel Kant
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the
John F. Kennedy
present are certain to miss the future.”
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." John F. Kennedy
"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two
John F. Kennedy
characters. One represents danger, the other represents opportunity."
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." John F. Kennedy
"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is
John F. Kennedy
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"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why...
Robert Kennedy
I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"
"More business is lost every year through neglect than through any
Rose Kennedy
other cause."
"Education : the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent John Maynard
by the incompetent. Keynes
"In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the
Martin Luther King
silence of our friends."
"The time is always right to do what is right." Martin Luther King
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat
Martin Luther King
now."
"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
Henry Kissinger
think it's their fault."

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive
L Dalai Lama
without human affection."
"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
Abraham Lincoln
years."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
Abraham Lincoln
character, give him power."
"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
Abraham Lincoln
all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the
M Niccolo Machiavelli
enemy until it is ripe for execution."
"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

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"To the soul there is hardly anything more healing than friendship." Thomas Moore
"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
Friedrich Nietzsche
same good things for the first time."
"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
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." Pablo Picasso
"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste." Pablo 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
Marcel Proust
new eyes."

R "If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror." Francois Rabelais
Thomas Brackett
"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead."
Reed
"The customer is never wrong." Cesar Ritz
"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life." F.W. Robertson
F. de la
"Many people despise wealth but few know how to give it away."
Rochefoucauld
F. de la
"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
Rochefoucauld
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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Franklin D.
"Rules are not necessarily sacred; principles are."
Roosevelt
Franklin D.
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does
Theodore Roosevelt
anything."
"With self-discipline most anything is possible." 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

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but Antoine de St
when there is nothing left to take away." Exupery
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other Antoine de St
but in looking outward together in the same direction. 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
Lucius Annaeus
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Seneca
Lucius Annaeus
"Life is a play. It's not its length but its performance that counts."
Seneca
William
"Action is eloquence."
Shakespeare
William
"All that glitters is not gold."
Shakespeare
William
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
Shakespeare
William
"Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners."
Shakespeare
William
"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."
Shakespeare
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the George Bernard
support of Paul." Shaw
"Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a George Bernard
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George Bernard
"The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty."
Shaw
George Bernard
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children!"
Shaw
"Martyrdom ... is the only way in which a man can become famous George Bernard
without ability." Shaw
"We don't stop playing because we grow; we grow old because we George Bernard
stop playing." Shaw
"Reasonable men adapt to the world. Unreasonable men adapt
George Bernard
the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on
Shaw
unreasonable men."
Alexander
"Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?"
Solzhenitsyn
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds Robert Louis
you plant!" Stevenson
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is Robert Louis
thought necessary." Stevenson
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift
"May you live every day of your life." Jonathan Swift

"I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion, than by

T Talleyrand
an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep."
Alfred Lord
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Tennyson
"A good laugh is sunshine in a house." William Thackery
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done,
Margaret Thatcher
ask a woman."
"It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for
Margaret Thatcher
its own sake."
"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
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Mark Twain
"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
Mark Twain
nothing. It was here first."
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a Mark Twain

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fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

"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
Unknown
one does."
"Only those who keep trying eventually win." Unknown
"Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done
Unknown
right is an achievement."
"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
Unknown
tomorrow."

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
Voltaire
error."
"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
Oscar Wilde
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"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,
Oscar Wilde
the other is getting it."
"True friends stab you in the front." Oscar Wilde
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every
Oscar Wilde
six months."
"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness." Tennessee Williams

William Butler
Y "Education is not the filling of a pail but rather the lighting of a fire."
Yeats
William Butler
"There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met."
Yeats

Z "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." Emile Zola

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