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Banking
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins to rains.
Robert Frost
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don’t need it.
BOB HOPE
Beauty
Rugged the breast that beauty cannot tame.
BAMPFYLDE, JOHN CODRINGTON
And both were young, and one was beautiful.
GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON
There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies blow.
CAMPION, THOMAS
As a beauty I’m not a great star.
Others are handsome far;
But my face-I don’t mind it
Because I’m behind it;
It’s the folks out in front that I jar.
EUWER, ANTHONY HENDERSON
Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
FULLER, THOMAS
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER
A girl who is bespectacled,
She may not get her nectacled.
NASH, OGDEN
Fair tresses man’s imperial race in snare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
POPE, ALEXANDER
She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.
POPE, ALEXANDER
He hath a daily beauty in his life
That makes me ugly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPeARe
Beauty and wisdom are seldom found together.
Pertonius Arbiter
Beuty is the gift of God.
Aristotle
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior
True beauty consists in purity of heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Margaet W. Hungerford
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
John F. Kennedy
Belief
There may be heaven; there must be hell;
Meantime, there is our earth here-well!
BROWNING, ROBERT
The meaning doesn’t matter if it’s only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM, SCHWENCK
No young man believes he shall ever die.
HAZLITT, WILLIAM
All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. (Of the appearance of men’s spirits after death.)
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his country men.
LEE, HENRY
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
MILTON, JOHN
All reformers are bachelors.
MOORE, GEORGE
While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Stands not within the prospect of belief.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
We always believe out first love is our last, and our last love our first.
WHYTE-MELVILLE, GEORGE JOHN
Appetite comes with eating.
RABELAIS, FRANCOIS
God be with you till we meet again.
RANKIN, JEREMIAH EAMES
If I have the belief that I can do it. I will surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Best
He wishes not to be seem, but to be, the best.
AESCHYLUS
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
BROWNING, ROBERT
I was ever a fighter, so- one fight more,
The best and the last!
BROWNING, ROBERT
I love everything that’s old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
His worst is better than any other person’s best.
HAZLITT, WILLIAM
Water is the best.
PINDAR
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
POPE, ALEXANDER
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
They say, best men are moulded out of faults;
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Live always in the best company when you read.
SMITH, SYDNEY
Blood
The blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
Edmund Burke
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
Books
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
BACON, FRANCIS
His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
BELLOC, JOSEPH HILAIRE PIERRE
Libraries are not made; they grow.
BIRRELL, AUGUSTINE
It is pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print; A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in it.
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON
Great book, great evil.
CALLIMACHUS
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
CARLYLE, THOMAS
Books are not seldem talismans and spells.
COWPER, WILLIAM
Never read any book that is not a year old.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
No, sir, do you read books through? (When asked if he had read a new book through.)
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
Whatever men do, wishes, fears, anger, pleasures, joys, goings to and fro, is the medley of my book.
JUVENAL
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
MILTON, JOHN
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
RUSKIN, JOHN
In nature’s infinite book of secrecy
A little can I read.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
SMITH, SYDNEY
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.
TUPPER, MARTIN FARQUHAR
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
WILDE, OSCAR
brotherhood
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.
Calvin Coolidge
There is a destiny that makes us brothers:
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back onto our own.
Edwin Markham
Humanity cannot go forward, civilization cannot advance,
except as the philosophy of force is replaced by that of human brotherhood.
Francis Bowes Sayre
Business
The great business of life is, to be, to do to, do without, and to depart.
MORLEY, JOHN VISCOUNT
A dinner lubricates business.
SCOTT, WILLIAM, BARON STOWELL
We should keep in mind that the humanities come before the dollars. Our first duty runs to man before business, but we must not forget that sometimes the two are interchangeable.
Bernard Baruch
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
The goals of business are inseparable from the goals of the whole community. Every attempt to sever the organic unity of business and the community inflicts equal hardship on both.
Earl Bunting
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
Charles William Eliot
It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde