Popular Quotes Through Time

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is insearch of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it.People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Freedom lies in being bold.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.