Quotations Page 'E'

Wealth, power and efficiency are the appurtenances of life and not life itself.

- S.Radhakrishnan, Great Indians -

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One has to achieve not merely technical efficiency but greatness of spirit.

- S.Radhakrishnan, Great Indians -

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There is nothing which has not been better before being ripe.

- Publius Syrus -

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We must so strive that each man may regard himself as the chief cause of the victory.

- Xeo phon -

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Faith in conceptual reason is the logical counterpart of the egoism which makes the selfish ego the deadliest ego of the soul.

- S.Radhakrishnan, Eastern Religions -

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I find no sweeter fat that sticks to my own bones.

- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself -

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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

- Churchill, Rosciad -

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Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

- Gray -

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Eloquence is the mistress of all the arts.

- Tacitus, De Oratotibus --

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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

- Swift, Thoughts on Varius Subjects -

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All empire is an immense egotism.

- Emerson, The Young American -

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All empire is no more than power in trust.

- Absalom, and Achitophel -

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The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet -

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Envy, to which the ignoble mind's slave,Is emulation in the learned or brave.

- Pope, Essay on Man -

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All may do what by man has been done.

- Young -

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Let the end try the man.All's well that ends well, still the finis is the crown.

- Shakespeare -

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We always succeed when we only wish to do well.

- Rousseau, Emile -

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Hard things are compassed oft by easy means.

- Massinger, New way to Pay Old Debts -

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There is an endless merit in man's knowing when to have done.

- Carlyle, Francia -

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