Best Quotes Around the World

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.