m-ric/english_historical_quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "future", "happiness", "time" ]
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "patience" ]
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "men" ]
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "time" ]
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "mom" ]
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "change" ]
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "sports" ]
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "jealousy" ]
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "education", "learning" ]
Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "legal" ]
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "society" ]
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "intelligence" ]
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "beauty", "power" ]
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "marriage" ]
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "good", "patriotism", "war" ]
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "government", "intelligence" ]
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "attitude", "respect" ]
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "power" ]
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "positive" ]
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "truth" ]
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "failure" ]
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "knowledge" ]
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "art" ]
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "happiness", "wedding" ]
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "nature" ]
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "history" ]
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "men", "women" ]
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "experience" ]
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "failure" ]
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "patience" ]
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "history" ]
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "great" ]
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "change", "politics" ]
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "technology" ]
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "religion" ]
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "god", "war" ]
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "politics" ]
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "great" ]
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "power" ]
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "men" ]
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "fear", "hope", "nature", "religion" ]
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "technology" ]
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "faith", "knowledge" ]
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "positive" ]
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "god" ]
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "future" ]
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.	Ambrose Bierce	[ "god" ]
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring.	Ambrose Philips	[ "beauty" ]
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.	Amelia Earhart	[ "war" ]
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.	Amelia Earhart	[ "failure", "women" ]
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.	Amelia Earhart	[ "failure", "women" ]
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.	Amelia Earhart	[ "home", "love" ]
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.	Amelia Earhart	[ "courage", "peace" ]
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.	Amelia Earhart	[ "change", "life" ]
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.	Amelia Earhart	[ "failure", "women" ]
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.	Amelia Earhart	[ "home" ]
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.	Amelia Earhart	[ "motivational" ]
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.	Amelia Earhart	[ "women" ]
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.	Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr	[ "knowledge", "science" ]
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.	Amiri Baraka	[ "money" ]
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "home", "mom" ]
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "age" ]
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "teacher" ]
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "experience" ]
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "age" ]
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "dreams" ]
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "family", "society" ]
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "strength" ]
Our ideals are our better selves.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "inspirational" ]
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "friendship" ]
The less routine the more life.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "life" ]
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "business", "government" ]
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "success" ]
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "failure" ]
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.	Amos Bronson Alcott	[ "teacher" ]
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.	Amos Oz	[ "respect" ]
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.	Amos Oz	[ "family" ]
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.	Amy Clampitt	[ "poetry" ]
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.	Amy Lowell	[ "art" ]
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.	Amy Lowell	[ "dreams" ]
Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.	Amy Lowell	[ "happiness" ]
All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.	Amy Lowell	[ "dreams" ]
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.	Amy Lowell	[ "science" ]
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.	An Wang	[ "business", "leadership" ]
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.	An Wang	[ "failure" ]
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.	An Wang	[ "technology" ]
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.	Anacharsis	[ "health" ]
Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.	Anacreon	[ "war" ]
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.	Anatole Broyard	[ "peace" ]
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.	Anatole Broyard	[ "poetry" ]
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.	Anatole Broyard	[ "war" ]
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.	Anatole France	[ "education" ]
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.	Anatole France	[ "courage" ]
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.	Anatole France	[ "pet" ]
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.	Anatole France	[ "equality" ]
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!	Anatole France	[ "art" ]
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.	Anatole France	[ "dreams", "great" ]
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.	Anatole France	[ "education" ]
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.	Anatole France	[ "equality" ]
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.	Anatole France	[ "education" ]

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "future", "happiness", "time" ]

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "patience" ]

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "men" ]

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "time" ]

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "mom" ]

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "change" ]

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "sports" ]

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "jealousy" ]

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "education", "learning" ]

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "legal" ]

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "society" ]

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "intelligence" ]

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "beauty", "power" ]

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "marriage" ]

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "good", "patriotism", "war" ]

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "government", "intelligence" ]

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "attitude", "respect" ]

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "power" ]

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "positive" ]

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "truth" ]

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "failure" ]

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "knowledge" ]

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "art" ]

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "happiness", "wedding" ]

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "nature" ]

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "history" ]

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "men", "women" ]

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "experience" ]

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "failure" ]

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "patience" ]

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "history" ]

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "great" ]

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "change", "politics" ]

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "technology" ]

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "religion" ]

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "god", "war" ]

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "politics" ]

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "great" ]

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "power" ]

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "men" ]

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "fear", "hope", "nature", "religion" ]

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "technology" ]

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "faith", "knowledge" ]

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "positive" ]

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "god" ]

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "future" ]

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Ambrose Bierce

[ "god" ]

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring.

Ambrose Philips

[ "beauty" ]

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Amelia Earhart

[ "war" ]

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

[ "failure", "women" ]

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

[ "failure", "women" ]

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Amelia Earhart

[ "home", "love" ]

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

[ "courage", "peace" ]

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

Amelia Earhart

[ "change", "life" ]

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

[ "failure", "women" ]

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Amelia Earhart

[ "home" ]

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Amelia Earhart

[ "motivational" ]

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Amelia Earhart

[ "women" ]

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

[ "knowledge", "science" ]

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Amiri Baraka

[ "money" ]

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "home", "mom" ]

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "age" ]

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "teacher" ]

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "experience" ]

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "age" ]

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "dreams" ]

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "family", "society" ]

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "strength" ]

Our ideals are our better selves.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "inspirational" ]

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "friendship" ]

The less routine the more life.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "life" ]

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "business", "government" ]

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "success" ]

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "failure" ]

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Amos Bronson Alcott

[ "teacher" ]

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

Amos Oz

[ "respect" ]

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Amos Oz

[ "family" ]

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Amy Clampitt

[ "poetry" ]

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

[ "art" ]

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Amy Lowell

[ "dreams" ]

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Amy Lowell

[ "happiness" ]

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Amy Lowell

[ "dreams" ]

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Amy Lowell

[ "science" ]

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

An Wang

[ "business", "leadership" ]

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

An Wang

[ "failure" ]

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

An Wang

[ "technology" ]

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

Anacharsis

[ "health" ]

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

Anacreon

[ "war" ]

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anatole Broyard

[ "peace" ]

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Anatole Broyard

[ "poetry" ]

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

Anatole Broyard

[ "war" ]

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Anatole France

[ "education" ]

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

[ "courage" ]

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

[ "pet" ]

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

[ "equality" ]

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Anatole France

[ "art" ]

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

[ "dreams", "great" ]

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Anatole France

[ "education" ]

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

[ "equality" ]

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Anatole France

[ "education" ]