BEST QUOTES

“If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no plea…

“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that…

“When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.”James Goldsmith (1933 – 97) British entrepreneur and politicia…

“Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.”Adlai E. Stevenson…

“Never be haughty to the humble;never be humble to the haughty.”Jefferson Davis (1808 – 89) U.S. politician

“A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.”Georges Pompid…

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural abili…

“Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.”Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 81) Brit…

“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”Bernard Baruch (1870 – 1965) U.S. financier and …

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Ins…

“Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.”James F. Byrnes (1879 – 1972…

“Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.”Shimon Peres (b. 1923) Israeli prime minister

“The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should…

“I like a nice cup of tea in the morning,For to start the day, you see,And at half-past elevenWell, my idea of HeavenIs…

“And finds, with keen discriminating sight,Black's not so black; - nor white so very white.”George Canning (1770 – …

“It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.”Wi…

“If you file your waste basket for 50 years, you have a public library.”Tony Benn (b. 1925) British politician

“American people ... will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of th…

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) British prime minister

“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.”…