- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24820/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24820/ <![CDATA[Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/43011/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/43011/ <![CDATA[The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15423/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15423/ <![CDATA[A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21891/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21891/ <![CDATA[A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22708/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22708/ <![CDATA[It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40632/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40632/ <![CDATA[The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34010/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34010/ <![CDATA[Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39270/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39270/ <![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42079/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42079/ <![CDATA[Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious naturethis is alike the aim of parent and teacher. ]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45286/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45286/ <![CDATA[As capital become international, international peace becomes a necessity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/47620/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/47620/ <![CDATA[War strengthens the central power and subordinates all interests to those of the state. Progress depends on the cessation of war. ]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/47621/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/47621/ <![CDATA[He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18121/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18121/ <![CDATA[The worst of revolutions is a restoration.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34426/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34426/ <![CDATA[It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14077/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14077/ <![CDATA[The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17660/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17660/ <![CDATA[That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22891/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22891/ <![CDATA[My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30816/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30816/ <![CDATA[Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32410/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32410/ <![CDATA[Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41217/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41217/ <![CDATA[It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22377/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22377/ <![CDATA[All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6990/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/6990/ <![CDATA[No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13729/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13729/ <![CDATA[Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12769/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12769/ <![CDATA[To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12004/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12004/ <![CDATA[Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12/ <![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13478/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13478/ <![CDATA[The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19876/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19876/ <![CDATA[I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34146/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34146/ <![CDATA[Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/7102/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/7102/ <![CDATA[Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23951/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23951/ <![CDATA[America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2161/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2161/ <![CDATA[It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2208/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2208/ <![CDATA[The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2231/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2231/ <![CDATA[Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, na?ve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2239/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2239/ <![CDATA[The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27842/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27842/ <![CDATA[In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36884/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36884/ <![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27355/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27355/ <![CDATA[You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36883/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36883/ <![CDATA[The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23483/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23483/