Showing posts with label Thomas Carlyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Carlyle. Show all posts

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Quotes

"Silence is more eloquent than words."
- Thomas Carlyle

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience
of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"One is very crazy when in love."
- Sigmund Freud


"I wonder what fool it was
that first invented kissing."
- Jonathan Swift

"A man's kiss is
his signature."
- Mae West

"Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope."
- Josh Billings

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quotes

"The Internet is a telephone
system that's gotten uppity."
- Clifford Stoll


"The less you talk, the
more you're listened to."
- Abigail Van Buren

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

"There are three constants in life...
change, choice and principles."
- Stephen Covey

All power corrupts, but
we need electricity."
- Diana Wynne Jones

The more the fruits of knowledge become
accessible to men, the more widespread
is the decline of religious belief.
- Sigmund Freud

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

"On account of being a democracy and run
by the people, we are the only nation in
the world that has to keep a government
four years, no matter what it does."
- Will Rogers

"Men, it has been well said, think in
herds; it will be seen that they go
mad in herds, while they only recover
their senses slowly, and one by one."
- Charles Mackay


"The greatest of faults, I should
say, is to be conscious of none."
- Thomas Carlyle

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which
is a serviceable substitute for wit."
- W. Somerset Maugham

Until you've lost your reputation, you
never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell

My definition of a free society is a society
where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Quotaria

"I think age is a very high
price to pay for maturity."
- Tom Stoppard

"Action is the foundational
key to all success."
- Pablo Picasso

"If I had to live my life again, I'd
make the same mistakes, only sooner."
- Tallulah Bankhead

"The sun, the earth, love, friends, our
very breath are parts of the banquet."
- Rebecca H. Davis

"There is a muscular energy in
sunlight corresponding to the
spiritual energy of wind."
- Annie Dillard

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue
dome that hangs over everything is better."
- Thomas Carlyle