Anna Jameson Famous Quotes
"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself."
Anna Jameson Quotations
I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts between himself and his cattle who lives without that thought.
John Locke
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
Laertius Diogenes
Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.
Brooks Atkinson
"I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
Hippocrates
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch
"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below."
George Orwell
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror."
William Shakespeare
"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters."
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis