Popular Quotes Through Time

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

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.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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.

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.

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

Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.