All Quotes

"A book is a friend."

"Fools live poor to die rich."

"Experience is the best teacher."

"None but the brave deserve the fair."

"God works in mysterious ways."

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

"Perfect friendship cannot be without equality."

"Let these words answer For what is done, not to be done again May the judgement not be too heavy upon us"

"Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?"

"Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore."

"Because I do not hope to know The infirm glory of the positive hour Because I do not think Because I know I shall not know The one veritable transitory power Because I cannot drink There, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again"

"I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action."

"This is the land which ye Shall divide by lot. And neither division nor unity Matters. This is the land. We have our inheritance."

"Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessèd face"

"Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice"

"Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree In the cool of the day."

"Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied."

"Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us — if at all — not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men."

"Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star."

"This is the dead land This is cactus land."

"Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow."

"A man is known by the company he keeps."

"Better to be alone than in bad company. (Strauss, 1998 p. 162)"

"Misery loves company."

"Two is a company; three is a crowd."

"Two is company, three is none. (19th century)"

"Comparisons are odious. (15th century)"

"Confidence begets confidence. (Strauss 1994, p. 187)"

"A guilty conscience needs no accuser."

"He's an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."

"Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and keep. (Strauss 1994, p. 1001)"

"Counsel is no command."

"Give neither salt nor counsel till you are asked for it. (Strauss, 1994 p. 661)"

"Keep your own counsel."

"Though thou hast ever so many counsellors, yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1044)"

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. (John F. Kennedy)"

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. (Nathan Hale)"

"Our country, right or wrongǃ (Stephen Decatur)"

"Courage lost, all lost. (Strauss 1994, p. 675)"

"Coward: one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Give credit where credit is due."

"To shed crocodile tears."

"Crows will not pick out crows eyes."

"What can't be cured must be endured. (14th century)"

"Other times, other customs."

"Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Praise the day at sunset."

"Enjoy the present day, trusting little to what tomorrow may bring."

"The day is short and the work is long. (15th century)"

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."