Solon Famous Quotes
Reprove thy friend privately commend him publicly.
"In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend."
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
Solon Quotations
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
Saint Augustine
"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."
Katharine Hepburn
"When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time."
Max McGee
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
Eden Phillpotts
"Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty."
James Russell Lowell
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork
Stanislaw Lec
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes
Christian Cardell Corbet
"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself."
David Mamet
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