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Tuesday 19 July 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-35

For my part, it was Greek to me.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-34

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-33

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-32

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-31

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

I bear a charmed life.

I dote on his very absence.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

Monday 18 July 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-30

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-29

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I was adored once too.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-28

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

If music be the food of love, play on.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-27

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-26

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Sunday 17 July 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-25

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-24

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-23

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-22

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-21

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Thursday 14 July 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-20

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-19

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-18

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

O, had I but followed the arts!

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-17

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-16

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Monday 11 July 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-15

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-14

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-13

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-12

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. 

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-11

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Friday 8 July 2011

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-39

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-38

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. 

We must become the change we want to see in the world.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-37

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-36

Where love is, there God is also.

Where there is love there is life.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Wednesday 6 July 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-10

The valiant never taste of death but once.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

The wheel is come full circle.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-9

There is no darkness but ignorance.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-8

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

There's place and means for every man alive.

They do not love that do not show their love.

They say miracles are past.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-7

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-6

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-35

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-34

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-33

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. 

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-32

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-31

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-21


Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.


Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.


Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.


Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.


Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Tuesday 5 July 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-5

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-4

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-3

What is past is prologue.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

What's done can't be undone.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-2

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-1

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Helen Keller Quotes Part-14

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Helen Keller Quotes Part-13

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller Quotes Part-12

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller Quotes Part-11

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Monday 4 July 2011

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-30


The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-29


Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before

service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-28


Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-27

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-26


Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Peace is its own reward.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
 

Friday 1 July 2011

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-25


Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-24


Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-23

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

My life is my message.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
 

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes Part-22


Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Morality is contraband in war.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

 

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