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Economy
If people starve what are they to do? Judges and magistrateswax
eloquent about the increase of crime; but are blind to the
obvious economic causes of it.
Jawahar lal Nehru
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The life and spirit of the American economy is progress and expansion.
Harry S. Truman
When you don’t have an education, you’ve got to use your brains.
Anonymous
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think…….
James Beattie
Education is the cheap defence of nations.
Edmund Burke
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Effort
Every day, from every point of view, I am getting better and better.
COUE, EMILE
When the object is to raise the permanent condition of a people, small means do not merely produce small effects; they produce no effect at all.
MILL, JOHN STUART
You beat your pate and fancy wit will come:
Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home.
POPE, ALEXANDER
I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Egoism
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
Aesop
Why should I be angry with a man, for loving himself better than me?
Francis Bacon
Conceit is God’s gift to little men.
Bruce Barton
Every bird loves to hear himself sing.
German proverb
If you love yourself over much, nobody else will love you at all.
Proverb
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
John Ruskin
We are interested in others when they are interested in us.
Pubililius Syrus
All men think all men mortal but themselves.
Edward Young
Enemies
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
CHEKHOV, ANTON
And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
DRYDEN, JOHN
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies?
Nay, who but infants question in such wise?
It was one of my most intimate enemies.
ROSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
The fine and noble way to destroy a foe, is not to kill him;
kindness you may so change him that he shall cease to be so; then he’s slain.
Charles Aleyn
Rejoice not over thy greatest enemy being dead, but remember that we die all.
Apocrypha
Wise man learn much from their enemies.
Arisophanes
Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own
Executioner
Thomas Browne
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
… the common enemies of man : tyrannty, poverty, disease and war itself.
John f. Kennedy
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
Oliver Hazard Perry
Though thy enemy seems a mouse, yet watch him like a lion.
Proverb
All the tyrants of Sicily never invented a worse torment than envy.
Horace
No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
Livy
Since we cannot attain to greatness, Let us revenge ourselves by railing at it.
Michel de Montaigue
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
Hannah More
It is a nobler fate to be envied than to be pitied.
Pindar
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Equality
When Adam dolve and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?
BALL, JOHN
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says,’Good fences make good neighbours.’
FROST, ROBERT LEE
My tears must stop, for every drop
Hinders needle and thread!
HOOD, THOMAS
Let the world slide, let the world go;
A fig for care, and a fig for woe!
If I can’t pay, why I can owe,
And death makes equal the high and low.
HEYWOOD, JOHN
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me, and I am sick of both.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
This must my comfort be,
The sun that warms you here shall shine on me.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
STEELE, SIR RICHARD
All animlas are equal
But some animals are more equal than others.
German Orwell
The only real equality is in the cemetery.
German Proverb
Rrror
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
LOCKE, JOHN
I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
Marcus Calo
Who errs and mends, to God himself commends.
Cervantes
It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Cicero
The cautious seldom err.
Confucius
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Bishop W.C. Magee
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
The wise course is to profit from the mistakes of other.
Terence
By his Grace, you enjoy all sorts of pleasures. You are provided with all necessities of life… and yet, you forsake Him and attach yourself to others. Such sinful mistakes cling to fools…
Guru Granth Sahib
Evil
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil
BENTHAM, JEREMY
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
BURKE, EDMUND
The total depravity of inanimate things.
HAMILTON, GAIL
Always washing and never getting finished.
HARDY, THOMAS
But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.
HOOD, THOMAS
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
MENADER
And out of good still to find means of evil.
MILTON, JOHN
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE
Commit the oldest sins the newst kind of ways.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
There is no sin except stupidity
WILDE, OSCAR
He is a hardened sinner who commits sin and yet entertains the belief that he is one of the God’s ‘chosen few’.
Sufi Saint
Excellence
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN
For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poet’s brain.
DRAYTON, MICHAEL
I scent which pays the best, and then Go into it baldheaded.
LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL
Where none admire, it is useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, it is vain to be a belle.
LYTTELTON, GEORGE
The career open to talents.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
I see better things and approve them; I follow the worse.
OVID
But let a lord once own the happy lines,
How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
POPE, ALEXANDER
How many things by season seasoned are
To their right praise and true perfection!
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
We welcome all the help we can get.
Lakshmi Mittal
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul’s faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue…
Aristotle
The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satishying.
David Ogilvy
Experience
He was a handsome, well-shaped man; very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit.
AUBREY, JOHN
No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers
The heroes of old,
Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life’s arrears
Of pain, darkness and cold.
BROWNING, ROBERT
My hair is grey, but not with years.
BYRON, GEORGE
Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
CARLYLE, THOMAS
When I take up a work that I have read before (the oftener the better) I know what I have to expect. The satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated.
HAZLITT, WILLIAM
I regard the pub as a valuable institution.
HERBERT, SIR ALAN PATRICK
I had rather a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Sir, he made a chimney in my father’s house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
SURTEES, ROBERT SMITH
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
WILDE, OSCAR
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Mohandas Gandhi
Verily your deeds will be brought back to you, as if you yourself were the creator of your own punishment.
Hazrat Muhammad
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.
Mohandas Gandhi
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Dhirubhai Ambani
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experienced is the most difficult period in one’s life.
Dalai Lama
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Sardar Patel
View life as a continuous learning experience.
Dr. Radhakrishnan
Extremism
It is worse than a crime; it is a blunder.
FOUCHE, JOSEPH
I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost
Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice.
Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater