Well-turned Sentences and Quotations
?Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
?Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
?Imagination is more important than knowledge.
?When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute——and it’s longer than an hour. That’s relativity.
?Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
——Albert Einstein (1875-1955 American)
?Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
?If you do not learn to think when you are young, you’ll never learn. ——Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931 American)
?We must believe that each one of us is able to something well, and that, when we discover what this something is, we must work until we succeed.
?Nothing in life is to be feared. It’s only to be understood.
——Madame Curie (1867-1934 French)
?When we encounter more difficulties, we should be more spirited; when we are more at danger, we should be more courageous. ——Patrick Henry (1736-1799 American)
?Other men live to eat, while I eat to live.
——Socrates (470-399BC Greece)
?The proper function of man is to live but not to exist.
——Jack Londong (1876-1916 American)
?Love your neighbor——yet don’t pull down your hedge.
?If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
?Eat to please yourself, but dress to please others.
?A word to the wise is sufficient.
——Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American)
?People who are very quick are apt to be too sure. Slow and steady win the race.
?Little people often think themselves of greater importance.
?He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. ?Self-help is the best help.
?He that prays harm for his neighbor begs a curse upon himself. ——Aesop (Greece)
?This has been made a test case, all who prosper in the future must put a shoulder to the wheel.
——Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894 American)
?No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.
?I can endure poverty, but not shame——neglect, but not insult. ——Charles Dickens (1812-1870 British)
?Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
——Anna Louise Strong (1885-1920 American)
?The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
?The tragedy is not in not knowing, but in not knowing that you don’t know.
——George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950 British)
?The learned is happy nature to explore, the fool is happy that he knows no more.
——Alexander Pope (1688-1744 British)
?The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
——Flaubert (1821-1880 French)
?The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
——William Blake (1757-1827 British)
?Sorrow calls no time that’s gone.
——John Fletcher (1579-1626 British)
?What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense. ——Laplace (1749-1827 French)
?The sum of behavior is to retain a man’s own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.
?He conquers twice, who upon victory overcomes himself.
?Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability.
——Francis Bacon (1561-1626 British)
?Books are the stepping stones to human progress.
——Maxim Gorky (1868-1936 Russian)
?Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
?Life is just a series of trying to make your mind.
——Thomas Fuller (1608-1661 British)
?It is only shallow people who judge by appearances.
?Truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
——Oscar Wilder (1856-1900 British)
?Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but rising every time we fell.
?I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. ——Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1744 British)
?Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
——Cornelius Nepos (Roman)
?Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. ——Marcus Tullins Cicero (Roman)
?Intellect is to the mind what sight is to the body.
——George Berkeley (1685-1753 British)
?Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success. ?Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
?A beautiful form is better than beautiful face; a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
——Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882 American)
?There’s but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
——Thomas Paine (1737-1809 British)
?The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. ?Every time you stop a school you will have to build a jail.
——Mark Twain (1835-1910 American)
?A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
——Conan Doyle (1859-1930 British)
?Keep your face to the sunshine and you can not see the shadows.
——Hellen Keller (1880-1968 American)
?The sun does not shine on both sides of the hedge at once. ——R. Jefferies (1848-1887)
?A man is not to be sneered at for having a trump card in his hand, he is only to be sneered if he plays his trump card badly.
?Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or picture or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
——Samuel Butter (1835-1902 British)
?I steer my ship with hope, leaving fear behind.
——Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 American)
?The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ——Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885 French)
?We can’t be all heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
——Will Rogers (1879-1935 American)
?Have no fear of perfection——you’ll never reach it.
——Salvador Dali (Spanish)
?Distance is naught while heart with heart can meet.
——Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906 American)
?I’d rather take care of the stomachs of the living than the glory of the dead in the form of stone memorials.
——Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896 Swedish)
?One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you do not come home at night.
——Margaret Mead (1901-1978 American)
?He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses everything.
——Cervantes (1547-1616 Spanish)
?If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
——Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822 British)
?The tree will wither long before it falls.
——George Gordon Byron (1788-1824 British)
?What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
——George Eliot (1819-1880 British)
?The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
?Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life.
——Goethe (1749-1832 German)
?The great use of life is to spend it for something that overlasts it. ——William James (1842-1592 American)
?The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
——Montaigne (1533-1592 French)
?No roads of flower lead to glory.
——La Rontaine (1621-1695 French)
?Victory won’t come to me until I go to it.
——M. Moore (1887-1972 American)
?What’s a man’s first duty? The answer’s brief: to be himself. ——Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906)
?In education we are we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
——William Allen White (1868-1944 American)
?When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something. ——Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957 American)
?We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose finite hope.
——Martin Luther King (1929-1968 American)
?Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon upon each of us may write his word or two.
——Amy Lowell (1874-1925 American)
?Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. ——Kierkergaard (1813-1855 Danish)
?The books which help you most are those which make you think most.
——Theodore Parker (1810-1860 American)
?Do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you. ——Confucius (Chinese)
?A long, long journey starts with the first step.
——Lao Zi (Chinese)
?A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.
——Wang Bo (650-676 Chinese)
?Be concerned about the affairs of the state before others, and enjoy comfort after others.
——Fang Zhongyong (989-1052 Chinese)
?A death befalls all men alike, I’ll keep a loyal heart to make a name in history.
——Wen Tianxiang (1236-1283 Chinese)
?For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
——Lu Xun (1881-1936 Chinese)