Quotes to inspire and reflect

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

I dote on his very absence.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

Your hearts are mighty; your skins are whole.

This is the short and the long of it.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Come not within the measure of my wrath.

Fill all thy bones with aches.

My library Was dukedom large enough. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2 #3361 From the still-vexed Bermoothes.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

I would fain die a dry death.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941 #3287 Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. G. K.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off. W. H.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales #3244Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.