Important Quotations from different disciplines

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Important Quotations from Different Disciplines

“I have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal” - Martin Luther King.
“They think too little who talk too much” - Dryden
“Superstition is a religion of feeble minded person” - Edmund Burke
East is East and West is West Never the twain shall meet. -Rudyard Kipling
Knowledge is power -Hobbes
Give me good mothers and I shall give you a good nation -Napoleon.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man and writing an exact man -Francis Bacon.
Man is by nature a political animal- -Aristotle
The unexamined life is not worth living -Socrates.
Religion is the opium of the people -Karl Marks.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains -Rousseau.
Liberty consists in doing what one desires -John Stuart Mill.
A face that cannot smile is never good - Martial
Ability is a poor man's wealth -M Wern
Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant, is a mind deserted - Cowper
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance -Franklin
Economy is half the battle of life, it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well purgeon
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty -Jefferson
Example is better than precept - S. Smiles
God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent Him -Hobbes
God is on the side of big battalions -George Bernard Shaw
God made the country and man made the town -Cowper
Government of the people, by the people, for the people -Abraham Lincoln
You may fool some of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all the people all time
-Abraham Lincoln
Habit if not resisted, soon becomes it necessity - Saint Augustine
Help thyself and God will help-thee -Herbert
Humanity is the solid foundation of all virtue - Confucius
I have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal. -Martin Luther King.
I shall not part with as much land by the point of a neddle - Isha Khan
Life is not life without delight - Rabindranath Tagore.
Live and let live is a rule of common justice - Lord Mansfield
Good face is the best letter of recommendation -Queen Elizabeth
Man poses, God disposes -Thomas A Kempis
Man's conscience is the oracle of God - Lord Byron
Men are woman's playthings, woman is the devil's - Victor Hugo
No man can be wise on empty stomach - George Eliot
None but a fool is always right - Hare
One should eat to live, not live to eat -Franklin
Pain is the outcome of sin - Gautama Buddha
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweeter - Rousseau
Philosophy is the art of living - Plutarch
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely -Lord Action
Prejudice is the child of ignorance -Hazlitti
Prejudice is the reason of fools -Voltaire
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life -H. W Beecher
Self suffering is the truest test of sincerity - Gandhi
Self-preservation is the first law of nature -Samuel Butler
Speech is great, but silence is greater - Carlyle
Success makes success, as money makes money - Chamfort
They think too little who talk much -Dryden
"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." written by ………….. - Francis Bacon
But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep'. ………….. These lines are from "Stopping by the 54. Woods on a Snowy Evening" written by - Robert Frost
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner ....... written by - Francis Bacon
"Thus I enter; and thus I go"…………. a quotation from "The Patriot" written by - Robert Browning.
"Shepherd to His Love" written by - Christopher Marlowe
'The government is the best which governs least' - Henry David Thoreau
'Veni, vidi, vici'. is the quotation from- "Julius Caesar - -William Shakespeare
'Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud; I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed.' .......These lines were from "Ode to the West Wind' written by - P.B. Shelley
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" was stated by - Lord Acton
"Fair daffodils! we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early rising sun
Has not attained his noon."-
…………. These lines are from "To Daffodils" - Robert Herrick
'Popular opinion is the greatest lie' ……… Thomas Carlyle
"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." …….. -Franklin
“Death is the golden key that opens the places of eternity” -John Milton
“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds” - Socrates
"Help thyself, and God will help them" - Herbert
"I slept and dreamed that life was beauty, I waked and found that life was duty." -S. Hooper
"Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind". -Shakespeare