Quotable Quotes
QUOTABLE QUOTES
(My favorite collection)
(My favorite collection)
(1) Camerado, this is no book,
Who touches this, touches a man……
-Walt Whitman, So Long.
(2) I shall pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness that I can show or any good that I can do, let me do it now, let me not defer it nor neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
- Anonymous.
(3) TO HER
Who smiled for me
Though I essayed no just;
Whose eyes were glad at my coming,
Though I brought her no gift;
Who suffered me readily,
Though I did her no honour;
MY MOTHER
- Anonymous.
(4) Gardish - e - ayyam tera shukriya,
Hum ne har pehlu se duniya dekhli.
(Thanks to the whirligig of Time
I have seen the world from all angles.
- Anonymous.
(5) There is a British painting of a dead Knight with the title “Mystery of Death.”
The painting illustrates the inscription.
What I spent, I Had!
What I saved, I Lost!
What I gave, I Have!
- Anonymous.
(6) A tree does not eat its fruit and the river does not drink its water.
16th Century Sufi poet Abdur Rahim
(7) Mankind is a fold every member of which shall be a shepherd unto every other, and be accountable for the welfare of the entire fold.
-Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
(8) Serve , Love, Give.
- Ancient Hindu Dictum
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(9) Each one of you should look not only to your own interest, but also to the interests of others.
- Anonymous.
(10) Life is a boomerang. What you give, you get!
- Dale Carnegie
(11)Let us not be wary in well-doing for, in due course,
we shall reap, IF WE FAINT NOT”
- Bill Clinton.
(12)Cowardice asks, Is it safe? Experience asks, Is it politic? Vanity asks, Is it popular? But conscience asks, Is it right?
- Anonymous
(13)It is more important to be human than it is to be important.
- Thomas Jefferson.
(14)Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important...
- T.S Eliot.
(15)Talking of experience, Field Marshall the Viscount Montgomery once pointed to his mule and said. “That mule has followed me on twenty campaigns.”
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(16) Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley.
(17) The only thing you can do with advice is to pass it on to others.
- Oscar Wilde.
(18) What comes from the lips reaches the ears, what comes from the heart reaches the heart.
- Arab Proverb.
(19) Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of man – the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
- Mark Twain
(20) The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
(21) Whatever mishap befalleth you is nothing but the result of what your own hands have wrought.
-Holy Quran (S42:30)
(22) I don’t worry whether God is on my side. I worry whether I am on God’s side
- Abraham Lincoln.
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(23) A gentleman is one who never inflicts pain.
-Newman
(24) They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
- J.R. Lowell, Stanzas on Freedom
(25) To do a great right, do a little wrong.
- William Shakespeare
(26) Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.
- Anonymous.
(27)One tape lights a thousand,
Yet it shines as it has shone,
And the humblest light may kindle,
A brighter than its own.
- Anonymous
(28) In clothes, the new are best,
In friends, the old are best.
-Chinese proverb.
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(29) As society becomes affluent, delinquency increases.
- Anonymous
(30) Never allow a fault to go unnoticed.
-Anonymous
(31) Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared
than a thousand bayonets.
- Napoleon
(32) What a tangled web we weave
when first we practise to deceive.
-Walter Scott.
(33) A leader never says. Get going . He says “Let’s go”. He leads all the way, always a step in front. He always carries a banner, not a whip.
- Anonymous.
(34) A task without a vision is drudgery,
A vision with a task is but a dream,
But a vision with a task is the hope of the world.
-Anonymous
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(35) What light is to the eyes , what air is to the lungs, what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
- R.G. Ingersoll “Progress”.
(36) Meri Zindagi Ka Maqsad Ke Sabhoun Ke Kaam Aoon,
Mai Chiragh -e- rehguzar hoon, mujhe shauq se jalao.
(My aim in life is to be helpful to all. I am the lamp of the way-farer, burn me as you will.
-Anonymous.
(37) The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
- William Shakespeare.
(38) Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
-Pope, Essay on Man
(39) The best rose-bush is not the one which yields the largest number of roses, it is the one which has the least number of thorns.
- Anonymous
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(40) Two men look out through the same bars, one sees the mud, and one the stars.
- F. Langbridge, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts.
(41) Cautionary silence is where prudence takes refuge.
- William Shakespeare.
(42) Those in power are not statesmen but mere politicians. They don’t set the course; they merely follow the wind.
- Anonymous
(43) An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of the country.
- Sir Henry Wooten
(44) When I roll, I exist,
When I rest, I am no more.
- Allama Iqbal,
(45) The word that comes from the heart evokes response;
Without wings, it has the strength to fly.
- Allama Iqbal.
(46) Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the back.
- Sir Harold Bowder.
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(47) If you seek peace without justice, you shall have neither peace nor justice.
-Emperor of Ethiopia.
(48) How can I be neutral between the fire and the fire-engine.
-Sir Winston Churchill.
(49) Men Wanted
Men whose conscience is as steady as the needle to the pole,
Men who will stand for the right though the heavens totter and the earth reels,
Men who can tell the truth and look the world in the eye
Men who are not ashamed to says No with emphasis.
- Anonymous
(50) It is indeed easier for e Muslim to be the President of the Indian Republic than to get a peon’s job in Rashtrapathi Bhawan.
-Prof Bhabavani Sengupta.
(51) The world merely changes. It does not progress.
- Anonymous
(52) Flaming youth has become a flaming question. And youth comes to us wanting to know what we propose to do about a society which hurts so many of them.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt .
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(53) No smash the little atom
All mankind was intent.
Now every day
The atom may
Return the compliment.
-Max Borus doggerel.
(54) In the society today, the insane are perhaps truly sane.
- R.D. Lang
(55) All art is but imitation of nature.
-Seneca, Epistle to Lucillas.
(56) Early to bed and early to rise.
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
- Franklin.
(57)Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
-Bacon
(58)Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
-Old Testament Proverbs
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(59)Education is what remains after you have forgotten all that you have learnt.
-Albert Einstein
(60)Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime;
And departing, leave behind us
Foot prints on the sands of time.
-Longfellow, A psalm of life
(61)Full marry a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
-Gray’s Elegy.
(62) Life, we have been long together
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
It is hard to part when friends are dear,
Perhaps it will cost a sigh, a tear;
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose there own time;
Say not “Good Night,” but in some brighter clime
Bid me “Good Morning”.
- Anna L. Barbauld, Life
(63) It is better to be a lily of a day than an oak of three hundred years.
- Anonymous
(64) A poet is born, not made.
- Anonymous
(65) Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.
- Oliver Cromwell
(66) We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
-Swift
(67) It is better to wear out than rust out.
-Richard Cumberland
(68) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- B .Disraeli
(69) Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
- John Seldon
(70) Politics contracts the mind and hardens the heart.
- Daniel Webster
(71) Man has learnt to fly like a bird, swim like a fish but has not yet learnt to live like a man with his fellow human beings.
-Maxim Gorky
(72) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- Gen George Patton.
(73) Difficult experiences often develop strong personalities. You can’t make steel without passing thro’ fire.
- Arch Buchwald.
(74) The ultimate tragedy is not the brutality of the bad people but the silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King.
(75) A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
(76) There is one thing common to flattery and smoking; they are both dangerous only if you inhale.
- Adlai Stevenson
(77) The journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.
- Confucius
(78) Science without religion is lame.
Religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein.
(79) When faced by a ferocious dog, speak softly to him while reaching for a big stick
Who touches this, touches a man……
-Walt Whitman, So Long.
(2) I shall pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness that I can show or any good that I can do, let me do it now, let me not defer it nor neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
- Anonymous.
(3) TO HER
Who smiled for me
Though I essayed no just;
Whose eyes were glad at my coming,
Though I brought her no gift;
Who suffered me readily,
Though I did her no honour;
MY MOTHER
- Anonymous.
(4) Gardish - e - ayyam tera shukriya,
Hum ne har pehlu se duniya dekhli.
(Thanks to the whirligig of Time
I have seen the world from all angles.
- Anonymous.
(5) There is a British painting of a dead Knight with the title “Mystery of Death.”
The painting illustrates the inscription.
What I spent, I Had!
What I saved, I Lost!
What I gave, I Have!
- Anonymous.
(6) A tree does not eat its fruit and the river does not drink its water.
16th Century Sufi poet Abdur Rahim
(7) Mankind is a fold every member of which shall be a shepherd unto every other, and be accountable for the welfare of the entire fold.
-Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
(8) Serve , Love, Give.
- Ancient Hindu Dictum
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(9) Each one of you should look not only to your own interest, but also to the interests of others.
- Anonymous.
(10) Life is a boomerang. What you give, you get!
- Dale Carnegie
(11)Let us not be wary in well-doing for, in due course,
we shall reap, IF WE FAINT NOT”
- Bill Clinton.
(12)Cowardice asks, Is it safe? Experience asks, Is it politic? Vanity asks, Is it popular? But conscience asks, Is it right?
- Anonymous
(13)It is more important to be human than it is to be important.
- Thomas Jefferson.
(14)Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important...
- T.S Eliot.
(15)Talking of experience, Field Marshall the Viscount Montgomery once pointed to his mule and said. “That mule has followed me on twenty campaigns.”
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(16) Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley.
(17) The only thing you can do with advice is to pass it on to others.
- Oscar Wilde.
(18) What comes from the lips reaches the ears, what comes from the heart reaches the heart.
- Arab Proverb.
(19) Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of man – the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
- Mark Twain
(20) The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
(21) Whatever mishap befalleth you is nothing but the result of what your own hands have wrought.
-Holy Quran (S42:30)
(22) I don’t worry whether God is on my side. I worry whether I am on God’s side
- Abraham Lincoln.
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(23) A gentleman is one who never inflicts pain.
-Newman
(24) They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
- J.R. Lowell, Stanzas on Freedom
(25) To do a great right, do a little wrong.
- William Shakespeare
(26) Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.
- Anonymous.
(27)One tape lights a thousand,
Yet it shines as it has shone,
And the humblest light may kindle,
A brighter than its own.
- Anonymous
(28) In clothes, the new are best,
In friends, the old are best.
-Chinese proverb.
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(29) As society becomes affluent, delinquency increases.
- Anonymous
(30) Never allow a fault to go unnoticed.
-Anonymous
(31) Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared
than a thousand bayonets.
- Napoleon
(32) What a tangled web we weave
when first we practise to deceive.
-Walter Scott.
(33) A leader never says. Get going . He says “Let’s go”. He leads all the way, always a step in front. He always carries a banner, not a whip.
- Anonymous.
(34) A task without a vision is drudgery,
A vision with a task is but a dream,
But a vision with a task is the hope of the world.
-Anonymous
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(35) What light is to the eyes , what air is to the lungs, what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
- R.G. Ingersoll “Progress”.
(36) Meri Zindagi Ka Maqsad Ke Sabhoun Ke Kaam Aoon,
Mai Chiragh -e- rehguzar hoon, mujhe shauq se jalao.
(My aim in life is to be helpful to all. I am the lamp of the way-farer, burn me as you will.
-Anonymous.
(37) The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
- William Shakespeare.
(38) Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
-Pope, Essay on Man
(39) The best rose-bush is not the one which yields the largest number of roses, it is the one which has the least number of thorns.
- Anonymous
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(40) Two men look out through the same bars, one sees the mud, and one the stars.
- F. Langbridge, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts.
(41) Cautionary silence is where prudence takes refuge.
- William Shakespeare.
(42) Those in power are not statesmen but mere politicians. They don’t set the course; they merely follow the wind.
- Anonymous
(43) An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of the country.
- Sir Henry Wooten
(44) When I roll, I exist,
When I rest, I am no more.
- Allama Iqbal,
(45) The word that comes from the heart evokes response;
Without wings, it has the strength to fly.
- Allama Iqbal.
(46) Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the back.
- Sir Harold Bowder.
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(47) If you seek peace without justice, you shall have neither peace nor justice.
-Emperor of Ethiopia.
(48) How can I be neutral between the fire and the fire-engine.
-Sir Winston Churchill.
(49) Men Wanted
Men whose conscience is as steady as the needle to the pole,
Men who will stand for the right though the heavens totter and the earth reels,
Men who can tell the truth and look the world in the eye
Men who are not ashamed to says No with emphasis.
- Anonymous
(50) It is indeed easier for e Muslim to be the President of the Indian Republic than to get a peon’s job in Rashtrapathi Bhawan.
-Prof Bhabavani Sengupta.
(51) The world merely changes. It does not progress.
- Anonymous
(52) Flaming youth has become a flaming question. And youth comes to us wanting to know what we propose to do about a society which hurts so many of them.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt .
10
(53) No smash the little atom
All mankind was intent.
Now every day
The atom may
Return the compliment.
-Max Borus doggerel.
(54) In the society today, the insane are perhaps truly sane.
- R.D. Lang
(55) All art is but imitation of nature.
-Seneca, Epistle to Lucillas.
(56) Early to bed and early to rise.
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
- Franklin.
(57)Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
-Bacon
(58)Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
-Old Testament Proverbs
11
(59)Education is what remains after you have forgotten all that you have learnt.
-Albert Einstein
(60)Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime;
And departing, leave behind us
Foot prints on the sands of time.
-Longfellow, A psalm of life
(61)Full marry a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
-Gray’s Elegy.
(62) Life, we have been long together
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
It is hard to part when friends are dear,
Perhaps it will cost a sigh, a tear;
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose there own time;
Say not “Good Night,” but in some brighter clime
Bid me “Good Morning”.
- Anna L. Barbauld, Life
(63) It is better to be a lily of a day than an oak of three hundred years.
- Anonymous
(64) A poet is born, not made.
- Anonymous
(65) Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.
- Oliver Cromwell
(66) We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
-Swift
(67) It is better to wear out than rust out.
-Richard Cumberland
(68) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- B .Disraeli
(69) Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
- John Seldon
(70) Politics contracts the mind and hardens the heart.
- Daniel Webster
(71) Man has learnt to fly like a bird, swim like a fish but has not yet learnt to live like a man with his fellow human beings.
-Maxim Gorky
(72) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- Gen George Patton.
(73) Difficult experiences often develop strong personalities. You can’t make steel without passing thro’ fire.
- Arch Buchwald.
(74) The ultimate tragedy is not the brutality of the bad people but the silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King.
(75) A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
(76) There is one thing common to flattery and smoking; they are both dangerous only if you inhale.
- Adlai Stevenson
(77) The journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.
- Confucius
(78) Science without religion is lame.
Religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein.
(79) When faced by a ferocious dog, speak softly to him while reaching for a big stick