Arthur Wellesley Wellington Famous Quotes
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley Wellington Quotations
Don't lay any certain plans for the future it is like planting toads and expecting to raise toadstools.
John Billings
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.
Willie Stone
"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
Benjamin Franklin
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
Melissa Timberman
Live a life as a monument to your soul.
Ayn Rand
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow
George Gordon Byron
"Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack."
Steven Runciman
"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel."
George Du Maurier
"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity."
John Brown