Henry Clay Famous Quotes
I had rather be right than be President.
"In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart."
"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."
"All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises."
Henry Clay Quotations
"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
Charles F Kettering
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead
There is no wisdom without love.
N Sri Ram
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
Miyamoto Musashi
"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."
Agatha Christie
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Sri da Avabhas
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men."
Zora Neale Hurston
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson