Well-Known quotations

‘All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes’

Sir Winston Churchill

‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever’

Keats

‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’

Keats

‘The child is the father of man’

Wordsworth

‘I came, I saw, I conquered’

Julius Caesar

‘Cowards die many times before their death’ The valiant never taste of death but once’

Shakespeare

‘The government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth’

Lincoln

‘Oh East is East, and west is West, and never the twain shall meet. Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great judgment seat.’

Rudyard Kipling

‘Paths of glory lead but to the grave.’

Gray

‘But be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.’

Shakespeare

‘Knowledge is power.’

Hobbes

‘I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.’

Socrates

‘Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.’

Wordsworth

‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’

Dr. Samuel Johnson

‘Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.’

George Menedith

‘Reading maketh a full man, his prayer is answered.’

Francis Bacon

‘The more Things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.’

Bernard Shaw

‘Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.’

Shelly

‘Tis strange but true; for truth is always strange.’

Byron

‘Let a hundred flowers bloom and let a hundred schools of thought contend.’

Mao Tse-tung

‘God is in His heaven, all’s right with the world.’

Browning

‘For men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever.’

Tennyson

‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.’

Churchill

‘Give us good mothers and I shall give you good nation.’

Napoleon

‘Long years ago we have made a tryst with destiny.’

Jawaharlal Nehru

‘Brevity is the soul of wit.’

Shakespeare

‘Variety is the very spice of life.’

William Cowper

‘Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul.’

Shakespeare

‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.’

Orwell

‘Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.’

Richard Lovelace

‘Swaraj is my birth-right and I shall have it.’

Balgangadhar Tilak

‘Man is by nature a political animal.’

Aristotle

‘Where wealth accumulates, men decay.’

Goldsmith

‘Good government is no substitute for self-government. ‘

Morley

‘Nevertheless it moves.’

Galileo

‘Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.’

Einstein

‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’

Lord Acton

‘Just as I would not like to be a slave, so I would not like to be a master.’

Lincoln

‘Eureka, Eureka.’

Archimedes

‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’

Shakespeare

‘Whom the gods love, die young.’

Byron

‘Do or die.’

Mahatma Gandhi

‘Dilli Chalo.’

Subhash Chandra Bose

‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan.’

Lal Bahadur Shastri

‘Truth and Non-violence are my God.’

Mahatma Gandhi