I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.
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SIR JOHN MORTIMER The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compel...
SIR ISAAC NEWTON Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who ...
SIR PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE Choose an author as you choose a friend.
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which ...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav...
SIR RICHARD STEELE The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven...
SIR RICHARD STEELE My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given:
I hold ...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
SIR RICHARD STEELE Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH I am not young enough to know everything.
SIR J.M. BARRIE Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betak...
SIR EDWARD COKE There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and ...
SIR EDWARD COKE The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In War: ResolutionIn Defeat: DefianceIn Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offe...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large ma...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia i...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma;...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL