WELL KNOWN QUOTATIONS

 ‘Just as I would not like to be a slave, so I would
not like to be a master’
 ‘A Government, of the people by the people and
for the people’
Abraham Lincoln
 ‘Give us tool and we will finish the job’
 ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and
sweat.’
Sir Winston Churchill
 ‘If God did not exist, it would be necessary to
invent him.
 ‘Crush the infamous thing’.
Voltaire
 ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’
 ‘Other men live to eat. I eat to live.
 ‘Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or
after death.’
 ‘I know nothing except that fact of my ignorance’
 ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’.
Socrates
 ‘The Gods help them who help themselves’ Aesop
 ‘The State ? It is me’
Louis XIV
 ‘I am not a culprit’
Fidel Castro
 ‘It was only one life, what is one life in the affairs
of a state’
Benitto Mussolini
 ‘Success is the sole earthly judge of right and
wrong’
Adolf Hitler
 ‘The throne is but a piece of wood covered with
velvet’.
 ‘Give me good mothers. I shall give you a good
nation.’
 ‘There is no word such as impossible in my dictionary’
Napolean Bonaparte
 “Et tu Brute”.
 Vini Vidi Vici (I came, I saw, I, conquered)
Julius Caesar
 ‘I am dying with the help of too many physicians’
Alexander the Great
  ‘Let a hundred flowers bloom and let a thousand
schools of thought contend’
 “Powers flows from the barrel of a gun”.
Mao- Tse -Tung
 “We can secure peace only by preparing for war”.
John F. Kennedy
 ‘The living need charity more than the dead
George Arnold
 ‘Reading make a full man, conference a ready man
and writing an exact man’.
 ‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed
and some few to be chewed and digested’.
 ‘Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for
ability’.
Francis Bacon
 ‘Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest
thought
 “If winter comes can spring be far behind’’
P.B. Shelley
 ‘Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great
judgement seat’.
 ‘East is East and West is West and never the twain
shall meet’.
Rudyard Kipling
 ‘The more things a man is ashamed of, the more
respectable he is’
Bernard Shaw
 Where wealth accumulates, men decay’.
 ‘Wisdom makes but a slow defence against trouble,
though at last at sure one’.
Oliver Goldsmith
 ‘The roots of education are bitter, but fruit is sweet.
 ‘Virtue is the mean state between two vices, the
one of excess and other deficiency’.
 ‘Man is by nature a political animal’
Aristotle
 ‘Let them eat cakes’.
Marie Antoinette
 “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me”
Jesus Christ
 ‘Nevertheless it moves’
Galileo
 ‘Play the game in the spirit of game’.
Baron Peirre de Coubertin
 ‘The empty vessel makes the greatest sound’.
 ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’
 ‘There is nothing either good or bad but thinking
makes it so’.
 ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’.
 ‘Frailty thy name is woman’.
 ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’.
 ‘Cowards die many times before their death, the
valiant never taste death but once’.
 ‘All the world is a stage and all the men and women
merely players’
William Shakespere
 ‘All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance’.
T.S. Eliot
 ‘End justifies the means
Nicholo Machiavelli
 ‘Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine
percent perspiration’.
Thomas Alva Edison
 ‘Knowledge is power’
Thomas Hobbes
 ‘Superstition is the religion of feeble minds’
Edmund Burke
 ‘The style is the name himself’
Buffon
 ‘Proper words in proper place’
Johnathan Swift
 ‘Nature never did betray the heart that loved her’.
 ‘The child is the father of man’.
William Wordsworth
 ‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing’.
 ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’
Alexander Pope
 ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’
 ‘Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are
sweeter’.
 “Beauty is truth and truth beauty”.
John Keats
 ‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts
absolutely’.
Lord Acton
 ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’.
 ‘Man is born free, yet every where he is in chains’.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
 ‘Whom the Gods love die young’.
Lord Byron
 ‘It takes two to speak the truth - on to speak and
the other to hear’.
Henry David Thoreau
 ‘The history of the world is but the biographies of
great men’.
Thomas Carlyle
 ‘Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven’.
John Milton
 ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel’
Dr. Samuel Johnson
 ‘Better a live sparrow than a dead eagle’.
Fitzgerald
 ‘Romanticism is disease classicism is health’
Von Goethe
 ‘Taxation without prosperity’
Jacob Molecschott
 ‘To every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction.’
Sir Isaac Newton
 ‘Thank God I have done my duty’.
Last words of Lord Nelson
 ‘Virtue is its own reward’
 ‘The good of the people is the chief law’ -
Cicero
 “Give me a place to stand and I can move the
entire earth”.
 ‘Eureka ! Eureka! (I have found it)’ -
Archimedes
 ‘Religion is the opium of the people’
Karl Marx
 ‘Man is a tool making animal’
Benjamin Franklin
 ‘Direct Action’
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
 ‘Good government is no substitute for self government’.
Morley
 One small step for men a leap for mankind (On the
stepping on moon)
Neil Armstrong
 ‘I think therefore I am’.
Descartes
 ‘Truth and non - violence are my God’
 ‘Do or die’
 ‘Hai Ram’
 ‘Untouchability is a crime against God and mankind’
 ‘A customer is the most important person in our
premises’.
Mahatma Gandhi
 ‘Ram and Rahim are the two different names of
the same God’
Kabir Das
 ‘Kerala is a lunatic asylum’
 ‘Live fast; die young’.
Swami Vivekananda
 ‘We have now to fight for peace with the same
courage and determination as we fought against
aggression’.
 ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’
Lal Bahadur Shastri
 ‘One caste, one God, one religion for man’.
Sree Narayana Guru
 ‘Back to Vedas’
Swami Dayananda Saraswati
 ‘Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe
that such a one as this ever in flesh and
blood walked up on this earth’.
Einstein (About Gandhi)
 ‘The whole universe is my native land’
Kalpana Chawla
 ‘Swaraj is my birthright I shall have it’
Balagangadhara Tilak
 ‘We have made a tryst with destiny’.
 ‘Aram Haram Hai’
 ‘At the stroke of midnight hour when the world
sleeps India will wake to life and freedom’.
Jawaharlal Nehru
 ‘Dilli Chalo’.
 ‘Give me blood’ I shall give you freedom’
Subhash Chandra Bose
 ‘Garibi Hatao’
Indira Gandhi
 ‘Freedom is in peril. Defend it with all your might’.
 ‘Work like a bull and live like a hermit’.
Dr. Ambedkar
 ‘Aiming low is a crime’
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
 ...... the light that shone in this country was no
ordinary light ..... for that light represented that
living truth ...
Jawaharlal Nehru
 ‘This was their finest hour’
Sir Winston Churchill
 ‘More things are wrought by prayers than this
world dreams of’.
Tennyson
 ‘Take care to get what you like or you will be
forced to like what you get’.
George Bernad Shaw
 ‘The goal of war is peace; of business, leisure’
 The roots of education are bitter, but fruit is sweet
Aristotle
 Marriage is the only adventure open to the timid
Voltaire
 ‘Know them thy self, presume not God to scan’
 ‘The proper study of mankind of a man’
Alexander Pope
 The supreme happiness of life is the conviction
that we are loved’
Victor Hugo
 ‘Among freemen there can be no successful appeal
from the ballot to the bullet’
Abraham Lincolin
 ‘There is no god higher than truth’
Mahatma Gandhi
 ‘The best portion of a good Men’s life. His little
nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of
love’
William Wordsworth
 “I am restless, I thirst for the distant, the far away”
 ‘I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest’
John Keats
 ‘The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship
of the proletariat’
Karl Marx (1818 - 83)
 Big, Bright and beautiful
(Describing the view of the earth from the space)
 “The responsibility for their flight lies from with
history and with the giants of science who proceeded
the effort”.
(Farewell telecast from space)
Neil Armstrong
 ‘Big brother is watching you’
George Orwel
 ‘Be proud that you are Indian, proudly claim I am
an Indian, every Indian is my brother’ Vivekanada