The bee is more honoured than other animals not because she labours, but because she labours for others
--St Chrysostom
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done
--Sam Ewing
As a child, the library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you’re grown up, your credit card does it
--Sam Ewing
Hardwork spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some
don’t turn up at all
--Sam Ewing
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything
--Samuel Johnson
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life
--Samuel Johnson
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure
--Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
--Samuel Butler
There are three stages in life: You don't want to take a nap and you have to; you want to take a nap but you
don't have the time; you want to take a nap, you do have the time, but you can't fall asleep
--Sarah Raymond
Everyone needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door
--Saul Bellow
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep
--Scott Adams
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are
--Scott Fitzgerald
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness
--Seneca
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted
--Seneca
If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself
--Seneca
Anger if not restrained, can be more hurtful than the injury that provokes it
--Seneca
You will never get ahead of anyone as long as you are trying to get even with him
--Seneca
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought
--Simon Cameron
The future is made up of the same stuff as the present
--Simone Weil
Laws are like spider’s webs: if some poor weak creature comes up against them, it’s caught; but a bigger one can break through and get away
--Solon
There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as our conscience that dwells within us
--Sophocles (Greek)
Often the best thing about not saying anything is that it can’t be repeated
--Suzan Wiener
The national ideals of India are renunciation and service. Intensify her in those channels and the rest will take care of itself
--Swami Vivekananda
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun. When they are concentrated, they illumine
--Swami Vivekananda
He who struggles is better than he who never attempts
--Swami Vivekananda
Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached
--Swami Vivekananda
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest
--Syrus
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts
--Talleyrand
Those who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do
--Terry Marshal
The most important thing a father can do for his children, is love their mother
--Theodore Hesburgh
There is a homely adage which runs 'Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far.'
--Theodore Roosevelt
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even checkered by failure, than to rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer, because they live in gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat
--Theodore Roosevelt
My son is my son till he have got him a wife
But my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life
--Thomas Fuller
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost
--Thomas Fuller
Bodily decay is gloomy in all prospects, but of all human contemplations, the most abhorrent is the body
without mind
--Thomas Jefferson
Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for how their acts are defined. This is why men are
more interested in better justifying themselves, than in better behaving themselves
--Thomas Szasz
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
--Tom Bodett
The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense
--Tom Clancy
To achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought of
--Tom Robbins
I believe every person has a heart and If you can reach it, you can make a difference
--Uli Derickson
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new
--Ursula K. Le Guin
A stand can be made against the invasion of evil, no stand can be made against the invasion of an idea
--Victor Hugo
Any cook should be able to run the country
--V.I. Lenin
They can do all because they think they can
--Virgil
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
--Walter Bagehot
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything
--Walter Bagehot
To the timid and hesitating, everything is impossible, because it seems so
--Sir Walter Scott
It takes twenty years to build a reputation, and five minutes to ruin it
--Warren Buffet
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage
--Wendell Phillips
Every man meets his waterloo at last
--Wendell Phillips
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoidthem
--Werner Heisenberg
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes
--William Bennett
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to a man as it is, infinite
--William Blake
Man’s desires are limited by his perceptions; None can desire what he has not perceived
-- William Blake
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else
--William Hazlitt
Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken
--Sir William Osler
Anyone without a sense of humour is at the mercy of everyone else
--William Rotsler
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature
--William Rotsler
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man’s censure but reserve thy judgement
--William Shakespeare
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly
--William Shakespeare
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create taste by which he is to be relished
--William Wordsworth
So live, that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip
--Will Rogers
Headmasters have powers at their disposal which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.
--Winston Churchill
Political ability is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next
year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn’t happen
-- Winston Churchill
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
--Woodrow Wilson
