Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
Thomas carlyle
Date: May 3, 2008
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
When words leave off, music begins.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.