Demosthenes Famous Quotes
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion."
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The fact speak for themselves.
The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
"He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach."
"The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once."
"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit."
Demosthenes Quotations
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
William Arthur Ward
"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
Proverbs 2918 Bible
"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe."
Dan Quayle
"Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord."
Albert Einstein
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
"A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next."
Johann von Goethe
"If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet you would get booed right off the stage. They're just not ready."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
H G Wells
"Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."
Susanna Moodie