Thomas Babington Macaulay Famous Quotes



It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.


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"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
John Steinbeck

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Kahlil Gibran

Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanislaw Lec

When you see yourself in proportion -- as you're bound to do when you get some sense -- then you see how much greater what is real is than anything you can put down.
Eudora Welty

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward

Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway

"In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth."
Rabindranath Tagore

"People don't start wars, governments do."
Ronald Reagan

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Benjamin Franklin