An ideal is that which never touches the real.
- Schiller,To Goethe -
He is the greatest artist who has embodiedin the sum of his works,the greatest numberof greatest ideals. We build statues of snow and weep to seethem melt.
- Sir Walter Scott -
When a man works for an ideal,he becomesirresistible.
- M.Gandhi, Young India -
An idealist is a person who helps otherpeople to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford -
Go to the ant,thou sluggard,consider her way,and be wise.
- Old Testament,Proverb -
Idleness is only the refuge of weak mind.
- Earl of Chesterfield,Letter to His Son -
Lost time is never gained again.
- Aughey -
Of all our passions the one we are leastcognizant of its idleness.
- La Rochefoucauld,Maxims -
here is no greater cause of melancholithen idleness.
- Burton,Anatomy of Melancholy -
I loaf and invite my soul.I lean and loaf at my ease observinga spear of summer grass.
- Walt Whitman,Song of Myself -
Four species of idols best the humanmind : idols of the tribe;idols of the den;idols of the market;idols of the theatre.
- Francas Bacon,Nevum Organum -
Your 'if' is the only peace- maker:much virtu in 'if'
- Shakespeare,As you like it -
There is no darkness but ignorance.
- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night -
Better be unborn than untaught,for ignoranceis the root of mifortune.
- Plato -
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant ofwhat I do not know. - CiceroWhere ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
- Gray -
We trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill.The surest way to health,say what they will,Is never to suppose we shall be ill.
- C.Churchile,Night -
So dose the glory depart, and so dangerous anddisillusioning is it to grow up.
- F,B.Lucas,One Day and Another -
Were it not for imagination,Sir man would be ashappy in the arms of chambermaid as of a Duchess.
- S.Johnson -
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
- Joubert -
Don't let us make imaginary evils,when you knowwe have so many real one's to encounter.
- Goldsmith,Good-natured Mane -
Imagination rules the World.
- Nepoleon -
The faculty of degrading God's work which mancalls his "imagination".
- Ruskin,Modern Painters -
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
- C.C.gotton -
Imitation belittles.
- Bovee Lacon -
We imitate only what we believe and admire.
- Willmot -
And the man who plants cabbages imitates too.
- Austin Dobson -
The seed dies into new life, and so does man.
- G.Macdonald -
Dust thou art,to dust returnest.Was not spoken of the soul.
- Longfellow, A Pslam of life -
I wish to believe immortality--I wish to live
with you for ever.
- Keats -
Immortality will come to such as are fit for it,and he who would be a great soul in futur be agreat soul now.
- Emerson,Conduct of life -
What isw a human is immortal. Impatience dries the blood sooner than age of sorrow.
- Cleon -
He censures God who quarrels with the imperfdectionof men.
- Burke -
The best of what we do and are.Just God,forgive.
- Wordsworth -
In every part of the world the good desireof men for peace and decency is underminedby the dynamic of jingoism.And it needs onlyone spark, set off anywhere by the egomaniac,to end it all up in one final fatal exsploson.
- Robert E.Sherwood,Idiot's Delight -
You write "it is not possible". Thast is not French.
- Nepolean -
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
- Samuel Johnson-
A wise man never attempts impossibilities.
- Masslnger,Renegardo -
I am a part of all that I have met.
- Tenysson,Ulysses -
Impromptu is truly the touch stone of wit.
- Moliere,Less Prieuses -
The spirit of improvement is not always a spiritof liberty;for it may aim at forcing iprovementon a unwilling people.
- J.S.Mill,Liberty -
Much of a wisdom of one age is folly of the next.
- C Simmons -
People seldom improve when they have no othermodel but themselves to copy after.
- Goldsmith -
Waste not,want not;wilful waste makes woefulwant.
- Franklin -
Bold knaves thrive,without one grain of sense.But good men strave for want of impudence.
- Dryden -
For be that has but impudence.To all things has a just pretence.
- S.Bytler,Miscellaneous Thoughts -
The pupil ofimpulse,it forced him along,His conduct still right,with his argument wrong.
- Goldsmith,Retaliation -
An idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.
- Coleridge,Ancient Mariner -
The mightiest powers deepest calms are fed.
- B.W.Proctor -
Clocks will go on as they are set: but man,irregular man is never constant,never certain.
- Otway -
No man,having put his hand to the plow,and looking back,is fit for the Kingdom of God.
- Lake,New Testament -
It is a miserable thing to live in suspence,it is the life of a spider.
- Swift -
In the end injustice produces independence.
- Voltaire -
Independence, like honour,is a rocky islandwithout a beach.He travels the fastest whotravels alone.
- Kipling,The Winners -
Sink or swim,live or die,survive or perish,I give my heart and hand to his vote.
- Daniel Webster -
I do not know a method of drawing up anindictment against whole nation.
- Edmund Burke -
Full of sweet indifference.
- R.Buchanant,Chairman -
It can never beThey will digest this harsh indignity.
- Shakespeare,Love's Labour Lost -
Literary history and all history is a recordof the power of minorities,and of minorities alone.
- Emerson,Progress of Culture -
Indolence is the sleep of mind.
- Valvenargus -
Sels-restraint and not indulgence must beregarded as the law of life.
- M.Gandhi,Self,Restraint -
Temperance and industry are the two realphysicians of mankind.
- Rawseau,Emile -
What are we ? How unequal ! Now we soarAnd now we sink.
- Young, Nights Thoughts -
No niggardly acceptance in evitable willappear pleasing to God.
- M.Gandhi,Young India -
Leaving behind them horrible dispraise.
- Dante,Infernot -
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
- Wordsworth -
At first the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
- Shakespeare,As You Like It -
Canst thou bind the sweet influence of thePleiades,or loose the bands of Orion ?
- Old Testament,Jpb -
Let him that would move the world firstmove himself.
- socrates -
Influence is the exhalation of charecter.
- M.W.Taylor -
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,To have a thankless child!
- Shakespeare,King Lear -
The goods received,the river is forgotten.
- Congereve,To Lord Halifax -
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
- Colton -
No greater shame to man than inhumanity.
- Spencer -
Inhibitions imposed from without rarely succeded,but when they are self-imposed,they have decidedlysalutary effect.
- M.Gandhi,Autobiography -
It is a principle of human nature to hatethose whome you have injured.
- Tautus -
No man is hurt by himself.
- Diogenes -
Unjust rule never endures perpetually.
- Senea,Medea -
The most cmplete injustice is to seem just,when not so.
- Plato,Republic -
A drop of ink may make a million think.
- Byron -
My ways are as broad as the king's high road,and my means lie in an inkstand.
- Southy -
Innocence under an evil Government must everrejoice on the scaffold.
- M.Gandhi -
They that know no evil will suspect none.
- Ben Johnson -
There is no courage but in innocence.No constancy but in an honest cause.
- T.Southern,Fate of Capua -
Striving to better,oft we mar what's well.
- Shakespeare -
Avoid a person who ask questions,for sucha man is a talker:nor will open ears keepfaithfully the things entrusted to them.
- Horace -
All power of fancy over reason is a digree of insanity.Though this be madness,yet there is method in't.
- Shakespeare -
No one who holds himself aloof form the activitiesof the world and who is insensitive to its woes canbe really wise.
- S.Radhakrishnan,Great Indians -
Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.
- Cicero -
The hearts of old gave hands:But our new heraldry is.....hands not hearts.
- Shakespeare,Othelo -
Great thoughts,great feeling come to him,like instincts,unawares.
- Lord Boughtod -
There is God within us,and we glow when He stirs us.
- Ovide,Fast -
No man was ever great without a touch divine afflatus.
- Cicero -
He who begins many things finishes nothing..
- C. Simmon -
Instinct and reason how can we divide ?' Tis' the fool's ignorance and the pedant's pride.
- Prior -
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies,seldom safe to venture to instruct,even our friends.
- C.C.Colton,Lacon -
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
- Lord Chesterfield -
If you speak insults,you shall also hear them.
- Plantes -
Insults are like bad coins:we cannot help theirbeing offered to us but we need not take them.
- G.H.Spurgeon,Salt Cellers -
Integrity is praised and starves.
-Juvenal -
A man of itegrity Will never listen any pleaagainst conscience.
- Home -
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
- Pope,Essay on Man -
The power least prized is that which thinksand feels.
- Wordsworth,Humanity -
All the wise....therein really extollingthemselves agree that Mind is to us a kingof heaven and of earth.
- Plato,Philebus -
Intellect obscures more than it illumines.
- Zangwill -
Light has spread and even bayonets think.
- Kossuth -
Simplicity of charecter is no hindrance tosubtlety of intellect.
- John Viscount Morley -
No task's too steep for his wit.
- Horace -
He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
- Quarlles -
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
- Rochefoucauld -
And when religious sects ran mad,he held in spiteof all his learning.Intolerance is itself a formof violence and an obstacle to the growth of atrue democratic spirit.
- Mahatma Gandhi -
A owman's intuition has often proved truer thanman's arrogant assumtion of knowledge.
- M.Gandhi.Young India -
God hath made men upright,but they havesought out many inventions.
- Old Testament -
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Anon -
The devil has a inventive mind.
- Voltaire -
*I may be a despicable person but whentruth speaks through me I am invincible.
- M.Gandhi,The Epic Fast -
Whether they give or refuse, it delightswomen equally to have been asked.Look with what courteous acting.It waves you to a more removed ground.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet -
There is a common saying that when a horseis rubbed on the gall, he wll kick.
- Bishop Latimer -
The Irish are the cry-babies of the Westernworld.Even the mildest quip will set themoff into resolutions and protests.
- Heywood Brown,The piece That Got Me Fired -
Oh,dainty paint is the Ivy green.Teat creepeth o'er ruins old I.
- Dickens,The Ivy Green -
