"No good deed goes unpunished."

Boothe Luce, Clare on pessimism
10 fans of this quote   

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Bierce, Ambrose on anger
27 fans of this quote   

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

Thatcher, Margaret on power
4 fans of this quote   

"If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver."

Byron, Lord on tyranny   

"Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas."

Proverb, American on influence
6 fans of this quote   

"We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described."

Thoreau, Henry David on influence
5 fans of this quote   

"During a very busy life I have often been asked, How did you manage to do it all? The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly."

Tangye, Richard on procrastination
4 fans of this quote   

"Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's."

Proverb, Welsh on reason   

"If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything."

Bible on procrastination
6 fans of this quote   

"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty."

Churchill, Winston on wealth
4 fans of this quote   

"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential."

Cardes, Liane on potential
10 fans of this quote   

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."

Mencken, H. L. on flirting
8 fans of this quote   

"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven."

Corneille, Pierre on duty   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders."

Cocteau, Jean on obedience
5 fans of this quote   

"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."

Shaw, George Bernard on marriage   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self."

Seneca on self-confidence
7 fans of this quote   

"The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man."

Gregory The Great, St. on elections
3 fans of this quote   

"While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them."

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules on morality   

"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."

Epicurus on happiness
4 fans of this quote   

"It is cheering to see that the rats are still aroundthe ship is not sinking. "

Hoffer, Eric on uncategorised   

"No one ever complains about a speech being too short!"

Hayes, Ira on present
4 fans of this quote   

"Might does not make right, it only makes history."

Fiebig, Jim on history and historians
4 fans of this quote   

"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on wisdom
6 fans of this quote   

"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle on wit
15 fans of this quote   

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."

Mann, Horace on teacher
9 fans of this quote   

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on common sense
8 fans of this quote   

"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on ability
4 fans of this quote   

"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

Beecher, Henry Ward on conservatives   

"Adultery is the application of democracy to love."

Mencken, H. L. on adultery
6 fans of this quote   

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."

Kissinger, Henry on leadership   

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."

Bevan, Aneurin on indecision
3 fans of this quote   

"It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree."

Mckern, Leo on freedom   

"The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system."

Friedman, Milton on greed   

"The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do."

Barton, Bruce on belief
3 fans of this quote   

"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble."

Twain, Mark on teacher
6 fans of this quote   

"A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective."

Gide, Andre on goals
3 fans of this quote   

"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on affirmation
14 fans of this quote   

"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on vocabulary   

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

Gide, Andre on action
15 fans of this quote   

"For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion."

More, Thomas on tolerance