Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.[Julius Caesar] Quote:The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.[GK Chesterton] Quote:There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.[Christopher Morley] Quote:I have not felt remotely cool for a long time, thanks largely to the relentless efforts of my teenage son, whose goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old. We'll be in the car, and he'll say, 'You wanna hear my new CD?' And I, flattered that he thinks his old man might like the same music he does, will say 'Sure!' So he increases the sound-system volume setting from '4' to 'Meteor Impact,' and he puts in a CD by a band with a name like 'Pustule,' and the next thing I know gigantic nuclear bass notes have blown out all the car windows and activated both the driver- and passenger-side air bags, and I'm writhing on the floor, screaming for mercy with jets of blood spurting three feet from my ears. My son then ejects the CD, smiling contentedly, knowing he as purchased a winner. On those extremely rare occasions when I like one of his CDs, I imagine he destroys it with a blowtorch.[Dave Barry] Quote:Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?[Stephen Hawking] Quote:A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.[Aristotle] Quote:Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.[Aristotle] Quote:Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.[Thomas Edison] Quote:The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting.[George Orwell] Quote:Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.[Adam Smith] Quote:Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.[Adam Smith] Quote:Any fool can make a rule.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.[Ansel Adams] Quote:I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.[Joseph Addison] Quote:All malice has injustice at it's end, an end achieved by violence or by fraud; while both are sins that earn the hate of heaven, since fraud belongs exclusively to man, God hates it more and, therefore, far below, the fraudulent are placed and suffer most.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.[Plato] Quote:When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.[Winston Churchill] Quote:In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. [James Thurber] Quote:Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. [Tallulah Bankhead] Quote:What luck for rulers that men do not think. [Adolf Hitler] Quote:Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. [Robert Graves] Quote:Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. [Confucius] Quote:I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Definitions of: uleDefinition: A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilloa elastica and Castilloa Markhamiana) related to the breadfruit tree. Its milky juice contains caoutchouc. Called also ule tree. |
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