Best Democritus Quotes: The most famous quotes by Democritus
More men have become great through practice than by nature. — Democritus
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. — Democritus
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. — Democritus
Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control. — Democritus
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds. — Democritus
Word is a shadow of a deed. — Democritus
Best Demophilus Quotes: The most famous quotes by Demophilus
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct. — Demophilus
Best Demosthenes Quotes: The most famous quotes by Demosthenes
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. — Demosthenes
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. — Demosthenes
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots — suspicion. — Demosthenes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. — Demosthenes
The fact speak for themselves. — Demosthenes
The easiest thing of all is to deceive one’s self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true. — Demosthenes
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self. — Demosthenes
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. — Demosthenes
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. — Demosthenes
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. — Demosthenes
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. — Demosthenes
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once. — Demosthenes
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit. — Demosthenes
Best Sir John Denham Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sir John Denham
Tis the most certain sign, the world’s accurst. That the best things corrupted are the worst. — Sir John Denham
Best James Dent Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Dent
Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss’s reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out. — James Dent
Best John Denver Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Denver
Whatever meaning ‘Annie’s Song’ had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer. — John Denver
Best Grard Depardieu Quotes: The most famous quotes by Grard Depardieu
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings. — Grard Depardieu
Best Chauncey Depew Quotes: The most famous quotes by Chauncey Depew
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. — Chauncey Depew
Best Morarji Ranchhodji Desai Quotes: The most famous quotes by Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. — Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
Best Eustache Descamps Quotes: The most famous quotes by Eustache Descamps
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. — Eustache Descamps
Best Rene Descartes Quotes: The most famous quotes by Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. — Rene Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well. — Rene Descartes
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. — Rene Descartes
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. — Rene Descartes
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense – no one needs more of it than one already has — Rene Descartes
Cogito, ergo, sum. (I think therefore I am.) — Rene Descartes
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. — Rene Descartes
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. — Rene Descartes
Cogito ergo sum. — Rene Descartes
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. — Rene Descartes
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. — Rene Descartes
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. — Rene Descartes
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. — Rene Descartes
Best Taisen Deshimaru Quotes: The most famous quotes by Taisen Deshimaru
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. — Taisen Deshimaru
To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give. — Taisen Deshimaru
Best Jacques Deval Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jacques Deval
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. — Jacques Deval
Best J. Deville Quotes: The most famous quotes by J. Deville
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. — J. Deville
Best Burnadette Devlin Quotes: The most famous quotes by Burnadette Devlin
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. — Burnadette Devlin
Best Richard M. Devos Quotes: The most famous quotes by Richard M. Devos
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one — Richard M. Devos
Best Lord Thomas Dewar Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lord Thomas Dewar
Minds are like parachutes they work best when open. — Lord Thomas Dewar
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. — Lord Thomas Dewar
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. — Lord Thomas Dewar
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open. — Lord Thomas Dewar
Best John Dewey Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Dewey
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. — John Dewey
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. — John Dewey
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication…. Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. — John Dewey
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent. — John Dewey
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it. — John Dewey
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. — John Dewey
Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. — John Dewey
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. — John Dewey
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — John Dewey
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction. — John Dewey
Best The Dhammapada Quotes: The most famous quotes by The Dhammapada
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. — The Dhammapada
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being. — The Dhammapada
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love – this is an old rule. — The Dhammapada
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. — The Dhammapada
One’s own self conquered is better than all other people. — The Dhammapada
Do not speak harshly to any one those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful blows for blows will touch thee. — The Dhammapada
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse… If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source. — The Dhammapada
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters if there are none, travel alone. — The Dhammapada
Best Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes: The most famous quotes by Leonardo DiCaprio
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don’t want heroes what they want is to see you fall. — Leonardo DiCaprio
Some people don’t get it when I’m being sarcastic. — Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Nick Diamos Quotes: The most famous quotes by Nick Diamos
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. — Nick Diamos
Everybody lies, but it doesn’t matter because nobody listens. — Nick Diamos
Best Adriana Diaz Quotes: The most famous quotes by Adriana Diaz
Fun has a sacred dimension. — Adriana Diaz
Best Philip K. Dick Quotes: The most famous quotes by Philip K. Dick
There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass… unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it’s real motives And who sent it here in the first place It only looks like crab grass. That’s what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it’ll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms. — Philip K. Dick
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. — Philip K. Dick
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. — Philip K. Dick
Best Charles Dickens Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charles Dickens
The law is sic a ass – a idiot. — Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. — Charles Dickens
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig. — Charles Dickens
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. — Charles Dickens
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. — Charles Dickens
A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world — Charles Dickens
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round…as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. — Charles Dickens
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. — Charles Dickens
There is a wisdom of the head, and … a wisdom of the heart. — Charles Dickens
In love of home, the love of country has its rise. — Charles Dickens
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it. — Charles Dickens
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. — Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time… — Charles Dickens
…it was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us — Charles Dickens
‘A merry Christmas, uncle God save you’ cried a cheerful voice. ‘Bah’ said Scrooge. ‘Humbug’ — Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. — Charles Dickens
Once upon a time–of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve–old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. — Charles Dickens
‘Out upon merry Christmas What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer… If I could work my will,’ said Scrooge indignantly, ‘every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should’ — Charles Dickens
There is always something for which to be thankful. — Charles Dickens
Then Bob proposed ‘A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us’ Which all his family re-echoed. ‘God bless us every one’ said Tiny Tim, the last of all. — Charles Dickens
‘At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,’ said the gentleman, taking up a pen, ‘it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. … We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.’ — Charles Dickens
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. — Charles Dickens
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. — Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way. — Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature. — Charles Dickens
It was a turkey He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird He would have snapped ’em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax. — Charles Dickens
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. — Charles Dickens
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see. — Charles Dickens
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that. — Charles Dickens
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year. — Charles Dickens
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. — Charles Dickens
We need never be ashamed of our tears. — Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. — Charles Dickens
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. — Charles Dickens
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. — Charles Dickens
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. — Charles Dickens
With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens
Best Glenn Dickey Quotes: The most famous quotes by Glenn Dickey
The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. — Glenn Dickey
Best John Sloan Dickey Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Sloan Dickey
There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate. — John Sloan Dickey
The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen. — John Sloan Dickey
Best Emily Dickinson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. — Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me — The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality. — Emily Dickinson
Anger as soon as fed is dead- ‘Tis starving makes it fat. — Emily Dickinson
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. — Emily Dickinson
My friends are my estate. — Emily Dickinson
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. — Emily Dickinson
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. — Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all. — Emily Dickinson
I dwell in possibility… — Emily Dickinson
There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons– That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes– — Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed. — Emily Dickinson
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. — Emily Dickinson
Best Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers — that perches in the soul — and sings the tune without words — and never stops, at all. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Faith–is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
I dwell in possibility. — Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Best John Dickinson Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Dickinson
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. — John Dickinson
Best Ray Dickinson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ray Dickinson
It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment’s vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber, some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started. They stayed where they were. They dropped back. They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual, and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power. — Ray Dickinson
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