Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Common Quotes


  • “Great minds think alike, small minds rarely differ”
  • “Jack of all trades, master of none, though better than master of one.”
  • “As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.” - Gandhi
  • “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.”
  • “The love of money is a root of all sorts of evil.”
  • “Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it burned in one.
  • “The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.” - Sir Anthony Montague-Browne.
  • “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are always bad men.” - Lord John Dalberg-Acton
  • "Well behaved women rarely make history.” - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard.
  • “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” - Family of choice is stronger that the bonds of a birth family.
  • “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” - Edward A. Murphy, the aerospace engineer
  • "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily.” - Shakespeare
  • “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”
  • “The report of my death is an exaggeration.” Twain
  • “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” -The Mourning Bride, William Congreve
  • “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” - Edmund Burke
  • “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.” - Richard III

posted by Y.H.N.

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