Thomas B Macaulay Famous Quotes
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
"The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
Thomas B Macaulay Quotations
"Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind."
S E Lindsay
Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.
Ronald Reagan
Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe."
Flannery O Connor
"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."
Peter Ustinov
"M-O-T-H-E-RM is for the million things she gave me,O means only that she's growing old,T is for the tears she shed to save me,H is for her heart of purest goldE is for her eyes, with love-light shining,R means right, and right she'll always be,Put them all together, they spell MOTHER,A word that means the world to me."
Howard Johnson
Use power to curb power.
Chinese Proverb
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
"The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be."
Saint Jerome
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
Horace