William Shakespeare Quotes

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

//William Shakespeare Quotes//

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

//Abraham Lincoln Quotes//

Dalai Lama Quotes

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

//Dalai Lama Quotes//

Mark Twain Quotes

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

//Mark Twain Quotes//

Mother Teresa Quotes

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

//Mother Teresa//