Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of w...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmas...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a l...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
SIR J. LUBBOCK A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
JOHN LUBBOCK Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind ...
JOHN LUBBOCK Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
JOHN LUBBOCK Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and s...
JOHN LUBBOCK If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on t...
JOHN LUBBOCK There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.
JOHN LUBBOCK Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening...
JOHN LUBBOCK Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmas...
JOHN LUBBOCK The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repo...
JOHN LUBBOCK Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion o...
JOHN LUBBOCK What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the ...
JOHN LUBBOCK Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening...
JOHN LUBBOCK What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
JOHN LUBBOCK Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgement when...
JOHN LUBBOCK A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to ...
JOHN LUBBOCK Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are...
JOHN LUBBOCK If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow
JOHN LUBBOCK What we see depends mainly on what we look for
JOHN LUBBOCK To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most...
JOHN LUBBOCK We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer an...
JOHN LUBBOCK In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t...
JOHN LUBBOCK How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars
JOHN LUBBOCK The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of r...
JOHN LUBBOCK The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be ...
JOHN LUBBOCK Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
JOHN LUBBOCK Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them
JOHN LUBBOCK We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
JOHN LUBBOCK We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin...
JOHN LUBBOCK Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never ma...
JOHN LUBBOCK Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when ...
JOHN LUBBOCK A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to...
JOHN LUBBOCK When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
JOHN LUBBOCK If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
JOHN LUBBOCK If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the mor...
JOHN LUBBOCK I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell...
JOHN LUBBOCK In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t...
JOHN LUBBOCK All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good thi...
JOHN LUBBOCK When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
J LUBBOCK Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have ever...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debau...
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
SIR JOHN EGAN Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not pl...
SIR JOHN HARVEY Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
SIR JOHN DENHAM A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
SIR JOHN BOWRING We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer an...
SIR JOHN ELIOT I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckl...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
SIR JOHN DAVIES Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
SIR JOHN DENHAM 'Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.'
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Secrecy is the badge of fraud.
SIR JOHN CHADWICK Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
SIR JOHN DENHAM It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
SIR JOHN HARVEY You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the fi...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might g...
SIR JOHN BOWRING We are never like angels till our passion dies.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL Deeds are males, words females are.
SIR JOHN DAVIES I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted ...
SIR JOHN DENHAM You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt. [Fr., Vous...
SIR JOHN DENHAM Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON 'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; ...
SIR JOHN DENHAM Best fishing in troubled waters.
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the ligh...
SIR JOHN SUCKLING The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different.'
SIR JOHN TEMPLETON For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
SIR JOHN DAVIES Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.
SIR JOHN HOLT Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
SIR JOHN POWELL The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide: If aught...
SIR JOHN DAVIES O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Though de...
SIR JOHN DENHAM A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- D...
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Nothing happens until something moves.
SIR JOHN DENHAM There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring, He that made it did refu...
SIR JOHN DAVIES The only real talent Miss Day possesses is that of being absolutely sanitary: her personality untouc...
SIR JOHN SIMON Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
SIR JOHN SIMON Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world (The Relapse)
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Sandy Dennis has balanced her postnasal condition with something like prefrontal lobotomy, so that w...
SIR JOHN SIMON Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squee...
SIR JOHN SIMON Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
SIR JOHN SIMON 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to th...
SIR JOHN SUCKLING Moche Crye and no Wull.
SIR JOHN FORTESCUE Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon...
SIR JOHN DENHAM Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho, And ne'er be seen againe.
SIR JOHN BERKENHEAD The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer show...
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
SIR JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD The people would rather have John A. drunk than Brown sober
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD The laboratory is the highest containment laboratory that you can make and, from that point of view,...
DR. SIR JOHN SKEHEL We started the whole network in 1947 from this laboratory on behalf of the WHO, so the World Influen...
DR. SIR JOHN SKEHEL Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego li...
SIR WILLIAM There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishe...
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world command...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
SIR HENRY WOTTON Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and deter...
SIR THOMAS TREVES The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
SIR MAX BEERBOHM Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.
SIR EDWARD HOBY All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
SIR WILLIAM JONES When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
SIR RICHARD STEELE The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may...
SIR RICHARD STEELE A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin be...
SIR SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtu...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
SIR RONALD MASON Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
SIR HUGH WALPOLE If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to tho...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
SIR HENEAGE OGILVIE Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profe...
SIR THEODORE MARTIN A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
SIR RICHARD STEELE That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE