Geoffrey Chaucer Famous Quotes
Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe (Very wise is he that can know himself.)
He was as fresh as is the month of May.
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotations
"In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Martin Luther King Jr
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.
Andrew Schneider
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
H L Mencken
"The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances."
Robert Staughton Lynd
"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."
Thomas J Watson
Character is what can do without success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
Jane Austen