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Robert Burton: All poets are...

Robert Burton: All poets are...

All poets are mad.

Source: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'
-- Robert Burton, (Feb 8...

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Robert Burton: What is a...

Robert Burton: What is a...

What is a ship but a prison?

Source: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' [The thought was...

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Robert Burton: Be not solitary,...

Robert Burton: Be not solitary,...

Be not solitary, be not idle.

Source: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy', the closing...

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Voltaire: Originality is nothing...

Voltaire: Originality is nothing...

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from...

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Francis Bacon: Riches are for...

Francis Bacon: Riches are for...

Riches are for spending.

Source: Essays, 'Of Expense'
-- Francis Bacon, (Jan 22...

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Francis Bacon: Consistency is the...

Francis Bacon: Consistency is the...

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Francis Bacon: Studies perfect nature...

Francis Bacon: Studies perfect nature...

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Source: In The...

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Florence Nightingale: To understand God's...

Florence Nightingale: To understand God's...

To understand God's thoughts, we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His...

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Edmund Burke: The first and...

Edmund Burke: The first and...

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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Edward Everett: A great character,...

Edward Everett: A great character,...

A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not...

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Edward Everett: You shall not...

Edward Everett: You shall not...

You shall not pile, with servile toil,
Your monuments upon my breast,
Nor yet within the common soil
Lay down...

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Henry McNeal Turner: I am a...

Henry McNeal Turner: I am a...

I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg . . . I...

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Daniel Webster: Failure is more...

Daniel Webster: Failure is more...

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Source: In The...

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Bliss Carman: The greatest joy...

Bliss Carman: The greatest joy...

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Shimon Peres: It is not...

Shimon Peres: It is not...

It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting -- their geographical situation has been...

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Patricia Schroeder: When it comes...

Patricia Schroeder: When it comes...

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

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Kwame Nkrumah: We face neither...

Kwame Nkrumah: We face neither...

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

Source: Conference speech, 7 April...

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Jawaharlal Nehru: Facts are facts...

Jawaharlal Nehru: Facts are facts...

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Source: In Instant...

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Ninon de Lenclos: Much more genius...

Ninon de Lenclos: Much more genius...

Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies.

Source: In The...

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Chester A Arthur: Since I came...

Chester A Arthur: Since I came...

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is...

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