Quotations Page 'I'
Integrity is praised and starves.
-Juvenal -
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A man of integrity will never listen any plea against conscience.
- Home -
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
- Pope, Essay on Man -
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The power least prized is that which thinks and feels.
- Wordsworth, Humanity -
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All the wise .... therein really extolling themselves agree that Mind is to us a king of heaven and of earth.
- Plato, Philebus -
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Intellect obscures more than it illumines.
- Zangwill -
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Light has spread and even bayonets think.
- Kossuth -
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Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
- John Viscount Morley -
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No task's too steep for his wit.
- Horace -
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He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
- Quarlles -
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
- Rochefoucauld -
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And when religious sects ran mad, he held in spite of all his learning. Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of atrue democratic spirit.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
- M. Gandhi.Young India -
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God hath made men upright, but they have sought out many inventions.
- Old Testament -
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Anon -
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The devil has a very inventive mind.
- Voltaire -
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I may be a despicable person but when truth speaks through me I am invincible.
- M. Gandhi, The Epic Fast -
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women equally to have been asked.Look with what courteous acting. It waves you to a more removed ground.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet -
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There is a common saying that when a horse is rubbed on the gall, he will kick.
- Bishop Latimer -
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The Irish are the cry-babies of the Western world. Even the mildest quip will set them off into resolutions and protests.
- Heywood Brown, The piece That Got Me Fired -
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