Memorable Quotes

Intresting stuff that keeps us thinking.

'Had I been present at the Time of Creation, I would have given some useful hints for better ordering of the Universe.' Alfonso the Wise

'The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.' Abbe D Allainval

'When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.' Henry Fielding

'Map me no maps, sir, my head is a map, a map of the whole world.' Henry Fielding

'What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate young human flesh.' Henry Fielding

'Let justice be done, though the world perish.' Emperor Ferdinand I

'Pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease.' E.E Cummings

'I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be; but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of facts even before they occur.' Lord Curzon of Kedleston

'My design is to make what haste I can to be gone.' Oliver Cromwell

'Not what they want but what is good for them.' Oliver Cromwell

'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.' Philip Larkin

'We are all strong enough to bear the misfortune of others.' Duc De La Rochefoucauld

'The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.' Duc De La Rochefoucauld

'In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favours.' Duc De La Rochefoucauld

'The accent of one's birthplace lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech.' Duc De La Rochefoucauld

'Deceive boys with toys, but men with oaths.' Lysander

'His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.' Lord Macaulay

'The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.' Lord Macaulay

'As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.' Lord Macaulay

'Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.' Sir James Mackintosh

'Because it is there.' George Leigh Mallory

'I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.' Ovid

'Lafayette, WE ARE HERE!' Colonel C.E Stanton

'Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.' Voltaire

'It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.' Voltaire

'Everything and Nothing' Khul Dragmor