Robert William

"A promise made is a debt unpaid."

"Ah! the clock is always slow; It is later than you think."

"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

"Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say."

"His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full."

"I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new."

"It's a different song when everything's wrong, when you're feeling infernally mortal; when it's ten against one, and hope there is none, buck up, little soldier, and chortle."

"It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race."

"No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is."

"This is the law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive; That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive."

Sir Walter Scott

"Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer."

"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."

"But with morning cool repentance came."

"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life."

"Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."

"Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."

"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."

"I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through.""

"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."

"If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once."

"It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty."

"Look back, and smile on perils past."

"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love."

"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."

"Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving."

"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"

"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"

"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."

"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."

"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."

"One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him."

"Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success."

"Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."

"Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."

"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."

"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."

"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."

"The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt."

"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."

"To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."

"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue."

"To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so."

"'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year."

"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."

"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."

"What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."

"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."

"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."

William Shakespeare

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."

"Alas, how love can trifle with itself!"

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy."

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

"And summer's lease hath all too short a date."

"And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."

"Art made tongue-tied by authority."

"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport."

"As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him."

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

"Cudgel thy brains no more about it."

"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."

"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"

"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."

"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."

"Expectation is the root of all heartache."

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

"Farewell, fair cruelty."

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

"For my part, it was Greek to me."

"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me."

"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."

"He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural."

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."

George Bernard Shaw

"A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman."



"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."



"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."



"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."



"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else."



"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."

Aristotle

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."


"The ideal person bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace,
making the best of circumstances."


"Without friends no one would choose to live, though they had all other goods."


" Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly,
to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action;
to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds."



"The beauty of the soul shines out when people bear with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because they do not feel them, but because they are people of high and heroic temper."


"Education is the best provision for old age."


"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly
to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when
all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."

"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied,
and most people live only for the gratification of it."


"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced
that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."


"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us."


"The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward."

"We become just by performing just actions,
temperate by performing temperate actions,Anybody can become angry--that is easy; but to be angry with the right person,
and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose,
and in the right way--that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."


"A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established
for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. . .
Political society exists for the sake of noble actions,
and not of mere companionship.
brave by performing brave actions."

"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know,
but we must try to have and use it."


"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence."


" I count them braver who overcome their desires
than those who overcome their enemies."


"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it. "


"Dont compare urself with anyone in this world.If u do so u are insulting urself. "


"Write ur sad times in sand and write ur good times on rocks Dont make promises when u are in joy and dont take any decision when u r sad. You are not responsible for what people think about u but u are responsible for what u make them to think about u."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life,
the whole aim and end of human existence."