Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Quote Worthy


If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. - Samuel Butler

You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. - Abraham Lincoln

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. - Matthew Arnold 

Before the calm there is often the storm; before understanding, the doubt; and before peace, the conflict. - Wong Siew Kit

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. - Aldous Huxley

And he that will not apply new Remedies, must expect new Evils; For Time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon

We are all designed for a specific purpose; we all have something for which each of us, and each of us alone, is responsible. - Naomi Stephan

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