Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.


Sir John Lubbock

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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