I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. - Emma Goldman
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience. - Robert Burton
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. - Napoleon Bonaparte
The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential. - Calvin Coolidge
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. - Alexander Pope
It is nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there – that is disgrace. - Edmund Vance Cooke
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. - Oliver Goldsmith
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. - Balthasar Gracian
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. - Benjamin Franklin
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. - James Howell
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. - Dolores Ibarruri
The past is foreign country; they do things differently there. - Lesley P. Hartley
2 comments:
Hi Vincent,
I think Dolores Ibarruri's quote is debatable.
Regards, Belinda
Hi Belinda,
Yes, some will agree, some will not. :-)
Cheers,
Vincent
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