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Unto whomsoever much is given  of him shall much be required.
— Bible
If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures  let him begin the long  solitary task of perfecting himself.
— Robertson Davies
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
— Mignon McLaughlin
He who would do good to another  must do it in minute particulars.
— Anonymous
General good is the plea of the scoundrel  hypocite  flatterer.
— William Blake
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example  if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards  I should call him a good shot  but not necessarily a good man.
— G. K. Chesterton
I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do  or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature  let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it  for I shall not pass this way again.
— Stephen Grellet
Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.
— Josh Billings
There is no man so good  who  were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws  would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
— Michel de Montaigne
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving  mercy?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When thou doest alms  do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
— Bible
No good deed ever goes unpunished.
— Brooks Thomas
Be good  sweet maid  and let who can be clever.
— Charles Kingsley
Good things are not done in a hurry.
— German proverb
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
— Joseph Joubert
We are all here on earth to help others  what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
— W. H. Auden
Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?
— Sara Jeannette Duncan
I have found men more kind than I expected  and less just.
— Samuel Johnson
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water  and  when he has reached ground  encumbers him with help?
— Samuel Johnson
There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us  that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.
— Sign in Springdalea
Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.
— Jewish proverb
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
— George Santayana
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you're naturally kind  you attract a lot of people you don't like.
— William Feather
The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.
— Sven Halla
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus  and a gift  though small  is precious.
— Homer
Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give  I give myself.
— Walt Whitman
If a friend is in trouble  don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
— Edgar Watson Howe
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth  and to have it found out by accident.
— Charles Lamb
As Charles Lamb says  there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident  so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.
— William James
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
— Erich Fromm
If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good  I should run for my life.
— Henry David Thoreau
If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.
— Bushrod H. Campbell
The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.
— Thomas Fuller
Wise men appreciate all men  for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
— Baltasar Gracian
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take egotism out  and you would castrate the benefactor.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
— Charles Dudley Warner
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.
— La Rochefoucauld
We know the good  we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.
— Euripides
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
— La Rochefoucauld
My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
— George Bernard Shaw
For an inheritance to be really great  the hand of the defunct must not be seen.
— Rene Char
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
— Bertolt Brecht
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
— La Rochefoucauld
The age of strong belief is over  the good is no longer always very good.
— D. L. Coles
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
For the cause that lacks assistance  The wrong that needs resistance  For the future in the distance  And the good that I can do.
— George Linnaeus Banks
Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good.
— John Fountain
Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
— Bible
Be good  sweet maid  and let who will be clever  Do noble things  not dream them all day long  And so make life  death  and that vast forever One grand  sweet song.
— Charles Kingsley
Since good  the more Communicated  more abundant grows.
— John Milton
A glass is good  and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather  The world is good  and the people are good  And we're all good fellows together.
— John O'Keeffe
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward  though sure of both at last.
— William Penn
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
— Caius Terentius Varro
The goose gabbles amid the melodious swans.
— Virgil
And all who told it added something new  And all who heard it made enlargements too.
— Alexander Pope
Biography is higher gossip.
— Robert Winder
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
— Thomas Fuller
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
— Leonard Woolf
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
— Bertrand Russell
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
— Earl Wilson
Gossip needs no carriage.
— Russian proverb
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach  And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
— Ogden Nash
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves  we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
— Saki
No gossip ever dies away entirely  if many people voice it: it  too  is a kind of divinity.
— Hesiod
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet  subtle satisfaction without the risk.
— Kin Hubbard
The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
— John Hay
If you can't say something good about someone  sit right here by me.
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth
What some invent  the rest enlarge.
— Jonathan Swift
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
— Edgar Watson Howe
Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.
— Spanish proverb
A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.
— Beryl Pfizer
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
— Walter Wine hell
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
— Bible
Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest.
— Francis Quarles
Foul whisperings are abroad.
— William Shakespeare
I heard the little bird say so.
— Jonathan Swift
Tattlers also and busy bodies  speaking things which they ought not.
— Bible
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about  and that is not being talked about.
— Oscar Wilde
When  in the course of human events  it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another  and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them  a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident  that all men are created equal  that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights  that among these are life  liberty  and the pursuit of happiness  that to secure these rights  governments are instituted among men  deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed  that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends  it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it  and to institute new government  laying its foundation on such principles  and organizing its powers in such form  as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
A difficulty for every solution.
— Herbert Samuel
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings  and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
— Dean William R. Inge
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
— George Bernard Shaw
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
— Hugh Sidey
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
— Laurence J. Peter
At certain times of grave national stress  when that rag-bag called the British Constitution is in grave danger of coming unstuck  thank heaven for the big safety-pin at the top that keeps it together.
— Anonymous
I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.
— William F. Buckley
The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.
— Lucius D. Clay
I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
— Harold Wilson
In the Conservative view  you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.
— Pierre Elliott Trudeau
It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.
— Harold Macmillan
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
— Dean William R. Inge
It would be desirable if every government  when it comes to power  should have its old speeches burnt.
— Philip Snowden
Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
— Abraham Lincoln
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
— Rosamond Lehmann
Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.
— Cyril Smith
States  like men  have their growth  their manhood  their decrepitude  their decay.
— Walter Savage Landor
The enemies of Freedom do not argue  they shout and they shoot.
— Dean William R. Inge
The entire civil service is like a fortress  made of papers  forms and red tape.
— Alexander Ostrovsky
The king reigns  but does not govern.
— Jan Zamoyski
The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.
— John S. Caldwell
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
— Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
— Charles Peguy
We have a tried and tested system of government that  in being so flexible  exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.
— J. M. Parkin
When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility  then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.
— Edith Hamilton
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
— Harry S. Truman
While the people retain their virtue and vigilence  no administration  by any extreme of wickedness or folly  can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
— Abraham Lincoln
Any people anywhere  being inclined and having the power  have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
— Abraham Lincoln
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
— Thomas E. Dewey
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper  and make it worthless by applying ink.
— Ludwig van Moses
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter! - all his force dares not cross the threshhold of the ruined tenement!
— William Pitt the Elder
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
— George Bernard Shaw
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
— I. F. Stone
The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.
— Marcel Masse
A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells  and when I give a man an office  I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
— Woodrow Wilson
The majority is the best way  because it is visible  and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
— Blaise Pascal
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States  but I never saw the Government of the United States.
— Woodrow Wilson
The State  that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
— V. S. Pritchett
The weak have one weapon - the errors of those who think they are strong.
— Georges Bidault
Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion  there is likely to be bad government  which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
Under democracy  one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed  and are right.
— H. L. Mencken
Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
— Milton Friedman
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production  of bad government to encourage consumption.
— Jean Baptiste Say
Bureaucracy  the rule of no one  has become the modern form of despotism.
— Mary McCarthy
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
— Will Rogers
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
— Barry Goldwater
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium  of custom  of inertia  it is by no means a representative of reason.
— George Santayana
The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it  and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
— Walter Bagehot
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
— Friedrich von Schiller
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
— Abraham Lincoln
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
— Dwight Morrow
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety  and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished  all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.
— Thomas Jefferson
A monarchy is a merchantman  which sails well  but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom  whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink  but then your feet are always in water.
— Fisher Ames
The state  it cannot too often be repeated  does nothing  and can give nothing  which it does not take from somebody.
— Henry George
Government  even in its best state  is but a necessary evil  in its worst state  an intolerable one.
— Thomas Paine
Government is not reason  it is not eloquence - it is force.
— George Washington
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
— Honore de Balzac
Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government  the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.
— Randolph Churchill
To govern is to choose.
— Pierre Mendes-France
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury  monarchies by poverty.
— Baron de Montesquieu
The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
— Seneca
China has no income tax  no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.
— Chou En-lai
In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people  with their wisdom and unwisdom.
— Thomas Carlyle
The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The worst thing in this world  next to anarchy  is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people  whatever they need to have done  but cannot do at all  or cannot so well do for themselves  in their separate and individual capacities.
— Abraham Lincoln
That government is best which governs the least  because its people discipline themselves.
— Thomas Jefferson
How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
— Charles de Gaulle
There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress  and that is continuously  incessantly  and without interruption. If it's really going to work  the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
— Henry Kissinger
The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow  with its head in the clouds eating air  and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.
— Clarence C. Manion
To make certain that crime does not pay  the government should take it over and try to run it.
— G. Norman Collie
The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.
— Lester Pearson
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government  but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
— Talleyrand
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails  admit it frankly and try another  but above all  try something.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
— Jerry Brown
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days  nor in the life of this administration  nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
— John F. Kennedy
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
— Bernard Berenson
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.
— Hubert Humphrey
When we got into office  the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
— John F. Kennedy
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new  so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves  and then we shall save our country.
— Abraham Lincoln
When I am abroad  I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
— Winston Churchill
The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.
— Richard Nixon
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.
— J. K. Galbraith
The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast  but never sinks.
— Everett Dirksen
The supply of government exceeds the demand.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.
— Lord Moulton
The safety of the State is the highest law.
— Justinian
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.
— Louis Brandeis
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
— Edmund Burke
Government is a trust  and the officers of the government are trustees  and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
— Henry Clay
Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.
— Grover Cleveland
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary  too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
— Thomas Jefferson
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government  and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
— Thomas Jefferson
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)
— Lao-Tsze
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
— Abraham Lincoln
Every nation has the government that it deserves.
— Joseph De Maistre
Democracy is direct self-government  over all the people  for all the people  by all the people.
— Theodore Parker
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection  - they have many friends and few enemies.
— Wendell Phillips
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned  even the meanest  yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.
— Socrates
It seems to me that government is like a pump  and what it pumps up is just what we are  a fair sample of the intellect  the ethics and the morals of the people  no better  no worse.
— Adlai Stevenson
Themistocles said  "The Athenians govern the Greeks  I govern the Athenians  you  my wife  govern me  your son governs you."
— Plutarch
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
— George Washington
There  but for the grace of God  goes John Bradford.
— John Bradford
Ye are fallen from grace.
— Galatians
He does it with a better grace  but I do it more natural.
— William Shakespeare
Gratitude is the heart's memory.
— French proverb
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
— La Rochefoucauld
He who receives a good turn should never forget it  he who does one should never remember it.
— Pierre Charron
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid  but which none have a right to expect.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard  than in the tombs of the Capulets.
— Edmund Burke
O death  where is thy sting? O grave  where is thy victory?
— Anonymous
Some village Hampden  that  with dauntless breast  The little tyrant of his fields withstood  Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest  Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
— Thomas Gray
The house appointed for all living.
— Anonymous
Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.
— Bishop Ken
The temple of silence and reconciliation.
— Macaulay
Dust into dust  and under dust  to lie  Sans wine  sans song  sans singer  and - sans end.
— Omar Khayyam
Oh  how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead  who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!
— Henry Philip
Is but the threshold of eternity.
— Robert Southey
Under the wide and starry sky  Dig the grave and let me lie.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
— Isaac Watts
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
— R. H. Tawney
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
— Henry Taylor
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
— Charles de Gaulle
Great and good are seldom the same man.
— Thomas Fuller
None think the great unhappy  but the great.
— Edward Young
All great men come out of the middle classes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
— Max Stirner
Only great men may have great faults.
— French proverb
Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.
— Maryon Pearson
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
— Albert Schweitzer
Great men are not always wise.
— Bible
In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong  but something greater: it seems inevitable.
— Margaret Sherwood
All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.
— Phoebe Cary
The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight  But they  while their companions slept  Were toiling upward in the night.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A white wall is the fool's paper.
— French proverb
Calmness is always Godlike.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
— Lewis Mumford
He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .
— Anonymous
We are all worms  but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
— Winston Churchill
To do great things is difficult  but to command great things is more difficult.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
— Herbert Asquith
If you want to know your true opinion of someone  watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.
— John Stuart Mill
One can build the Empire State Building  discipline the Prussian army  make a state hierarchy mightier than God  yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Each honest calling  each walk of life  has its own elite  its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
— James Bryant Conant
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.
— Adlai Stevenson
Not a day passes over the earth  but men and women of no note do great deeds  speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
— Charles Reade
Some are born great  some achieve greatness  and some hire public relations officers.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest  the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief  the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
It is not the strength  but the duration  of great sentiments that makes great men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A great ship asks deep water.
— George Herbert
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
— Walter Savage Landor
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.
— Charles Rollin
Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
— Stephen Spender
If I am a great man  then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.
— Bonar Law
Great men hallow a whole people  and lift up all who live in their time.
— Sydney Smith
The greatest truths are the simplest  and so are the greatest men.
— J. C. and A . W. Hare
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
— Max Beerbohm
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism  pride  hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him  indeed they will be regarded as high qualities  if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
— Charles de Gaulle
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
— Alexander Chase
When you're as great as I am  it's hard to be humble.
— Muhammad Ali
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness  than disbelief in great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
— Alexander the Great
If my theory of relativity is proven successful  Germany will claim me as a German  and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue  France will say that I am a German  and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
— Albert Einstein
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
— T. S. Eliot
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men  but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
— Josi Ortega y Gasset
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
— Vauvenargues
The biggest dog has been a pup.
— Joaquin Miller
There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
— French proverb
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life  we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we  and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
— Sigmund Freud
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
— Samuel Johnson
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
— La Rochefoucauld
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Some are born great  some achieve greatness  and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
— William Shakespeare
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal  though no more  though fallen great!
— Lord Byron
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
— Latin proverb
Athens  the eye of Greece  mother of arts And eloquence.
— John Milton
The glory that was Greece.
— Edgar Allan Poe
He who is greedy is always in want.
— Horace
No gain satisfies a greedy mind.
— Latin proverb
Ambition if it feeds at all  does so on the ambition of others.
— Susan Sontag
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
— Harriet Woods
Greed lessens what is gathered.
— Arab proverb
We risk all in being too greedy.
— Jean de la Fontaine
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
— Erich Fromm
Greed  like the love of comfort  is a kind of fear.
— Cyril Connolly
Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.
— Lydia M. Child
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
— Eliza Cook
The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.
— Sa'di
For greed  all nature is too little.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief  as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
— Cicero
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
— Cicero
Grief is itself a med'cine.
— William Cowper
The only cure for grief is action.
— G. H. Lewes
Heavy hearts  like heavy clouds in the sky  are best relieved by the letting of water.
— Antoine de Rivarol
Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
— William Shakespeare
What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief.
— William Shakespeare
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
— Plautus
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
— William Shakespeare
Every guest hates the others  and the host hates them all.
— Albanian Proverb
Let no guilty man escape  if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar  it never fails of doing justice upon itself  for every guilty person is his own hangman.
— Seneca
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
— Syrus
A precedent embalms a principle.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths  but he has not been able to destroy them.
— Octavio Paz
Custom is second nature  and no less powerful.
— Michel Eyquem Montaigne
Custom reconciles us to everything.
— Edmund Burke
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Habit is a great deadener.
— Samuel Beckett
Habit is habit  and not to be thrown out of the window by any man  but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
— Mark Twain
Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice  it is merely custom.
— Mark Twain
He who does anything because it is the custom  makes no choice.
— John Stuart Mill
In some remote regions of Islam it is said  a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.
— Raymond Mortimer
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these  perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.
— Thomas Carlyle
It is well to lie fallow for a while.
— Martin F. Tupper
She always says she dislikes the abnormal  it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
— Gertrude Stein
The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.
— John Stuart Mill
The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.
— Nathaniel Howe
There is nothing sacred about convention  there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims  but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
— George Santayana
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead  it means that the dead are living.
— Harold Macmillan
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Custom  that unwritten law  By which the people keep even kings in awe.
— Charles Davenport
Habit is stronger than reason.
— George Santayana
Laws are never as effective as habits.
— Adlai Stevenson
Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time  which explains why young years pass slowly  while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.
— Thomas Mann
The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society  its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding  or regretting  of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
— William James
Chaos often breeds life  when order breeds habit.
— Henry Adams
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
— Lady Astor
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
— Samuel Johnson
When you are accustomed to anything  you are estranged from it.
— George Cabot Lodge
Habit  if not resisted  soon becomes necessity.
— St. Augustine
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
— William Shakespeare
Habits are at first cobwebs  then cables.
— Spanish proverb
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
— Suetonius
His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
— Anonymous
Gray hair is a sign of age  not of wisdom.
— Greek proverb
The very hairs of your head are all numbered.
— Matthew
The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.
— Anonymous
There was never a saint with red hair.
— Russian proverb
His hand will be against every man  and every man's hand against him.
— Anonymous
The voice is Jacob's voice  but the hands are the hands of Esau.
— Anonymous
Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
— Matthew
As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
— English proverb
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.
— Anonymous
We must all hang together  else we shalFall hang separately.
— Benjamin Franklin
They're hangin' Danny Deever in the morning!
— Rudyard Kipling
Anarchy is against the law.
— Graffiti
Back of tranquility lies always captured unhappiness.
— David Grazin
Eden is that old-fashioned House We dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away.
— Emily Dickinson
Happiness is a mystery like religion  and it should never be rationalized.
— G. K. Chesterton
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
— Bible
Man is preceded by forest followed by desert.
— French graffiti
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
— Vauvenargues
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
— Jeremy Bentham
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
— La Rochefoucauld
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Man's real life is happy  chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Unquestionably  it is possible to do without happiness  it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
— John Stuart Mill
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants  and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
— Joseph Addison
If a man has important work  and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly  he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
— R. H. Tawney
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
— William Saroyan
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little  we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
— William Cowper
Even if we can't be happy  we must always be cheerful.
— Irving Kristol
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
— Charles Lamb
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
— Lytton Strachey
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
— Bertrand Russell
For the rational  psychologically healthy man  the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic  the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
— Nathaniel Branden
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
— Charles Peguy
If thou workest at that which is before thee  following right reason seriously  vigorously  calmly  without allowing anything else to distract thee  but keeping thy divine part pure  as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately  if thou holdest to this  expecting nothing  fearing nothing  but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature  and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest  thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
— Marcus Aurelius
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
— Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
— William Maxwell
Happiness: a good bank account  a good cook and a good digestion.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
— George Santayana
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
— Don Marquis
Behold  we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.
— Bible
The will of man is his happiness.
— Friedrich von Schiller
Man's happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles  which afford the mind a healthful stimulus  and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.
— E. Wigglesworth
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
— Epictetus
It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is  rightly  more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
— W. H. Auden
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes  but in liking what one has to do.
— James M. Barrie
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise  it arises  in the first place  from the enjoyment of one's self  and  in the next  from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.
— Joseph Addison
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy  but never an interested person who was unhappy.
— A. C. Benson
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
My life has no purpose  no direction  no aim  no meaning  and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
— Charles M. Schulz
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.
— Charlton Ogburn
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then  To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.
— Don Marquis
I believe in the possibility of happiness  if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions  including optimism.
— George Santayana
Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
— Euripides
To be happy  we must not be too concerned with others.
— Albert Camus
. . . the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks  the valleys also are covered over with corn  they shout for joy  they also sing.
— Bible
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
— Emily Dickinson
At rare moments in history  by a series of accidents never to be repeated  arise flower societies in which the cult of happiness is paramount  hedonistic  mindless  intent upon the glorious physical instant.
— Colm Maclnnes
Man is that he might have joy.
— Joseph Smith
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
— A. Edward Newton
Make happy those who are near  and those who are far will come.
— Chinese proverb
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
— Roy M. Goodman
If we cannot live so as to be happy  let us at least live so as to deserve it.
— Immanuel Hermann von Fichte
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
— Cicero
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
— Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is the only sanction of life  where happiness fails  existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
— George Santayana
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves  and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
— Agnes Repplier
Happiness depends  as Nature shows  Less on exterior things than most suppose.
— William Cowper
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime  and should be taken in small doses.
— Russell Baker
Man is fond of counting his troubles  but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to  he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I am happy and content because I think I am.
— Alain-Rene Lesage
Unhappy is the man  though he rule the world  who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Happiness is a result of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings  rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.
— Norman Bradburn
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
— Anonymous
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
— Baltasar Gracian
If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.
— William Penn
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
— Horace
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When a man has lost all happiness  he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
— Sophocles
Whether you are talking about education  career  or service  you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
— Barbara Bush
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
— May Sarton
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life  the whole aim and end of human existence
— Aristotle
Happiness is the only sanction in life  where happiness fails  existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
— George Santayana
The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
— Robert Henri
Make us happy and you make us good.
— Robert Browning
A good laugh makes any interview  or any conversation  so much better.
— Barbara Walters
The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.
— Bible
I love myself when I am laughing.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Everyone  without exception  is searching for happiness.
— Blaise Pascal
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images  just watching images passing by which I cannot live in  make love to  possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
— Anais Nin
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving  make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
— Amanda Bradley
Live all you can  it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular  so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that  what have you had?
— Henry James
Is life worth living? Aye  with the best of us  Heights of us  depths of us- Life is the test of us!
— Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.
— Phyllis Battelle
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
— Brenda Ueland
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
— Jeanne Moreau
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
— Diane Ackerman
Men are made for happiness  and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."
— Anton Chekhov
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
— Socrates
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
— Pierre de Beaumarchais
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
— Samuel Butler
Everything holds its breath except spring. She bursts through as strong as ever.
— B. M. Bower
To live as fully  as completely as possible  to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.
— Llewelyn Powers
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
— Henrik Ibsen
All I can say about life is  Oh God  enjoy it!
— Bob Newhart
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
— Agnes Repplier
Happiness hates the timid!
— Eugene O'Neill
I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth  and what we can enjoy in this life  I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
— Heinrich Heine
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
— Don Marquis
If you want to die happily  learn to live  if you would live happily  learn to die.
— Celio Calcagnini
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved  and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love  and to be hurt often  and to love again-this is the brave and happy life.
— J. E. Buckrose
The true object of all human life is play.
— G. K. Chesterton
The right to happiness is fundamental.
— Anna Pavlova
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes  And men grow better as the world grows old.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them  there ought to be as many for love.
— Margaret Atwood
Not all of us have to possess earth-shaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
— Myrtle Auvil
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time.
— Julia Child