Quotes in my opinion a very interesting mean to refresh your mind, opinions ,and thoughts by discovering its meanings

So let's share together

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Fred Allen 1894 - 1956

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

Thomas Edison

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

- Thomas Edison

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Very cute thread ;)

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning

Bill Gates...

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Anne Tyler

"Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know."
Twelfth Night II, iii, 44-45


The secondary characters in Twelfth Night carry the real comic portion of the plot. Feste, the jester (or Fool) who sings the lines above, prophetically echos the mood of the play. Earlier we learned that twin siblings, Sebastian and Viola, were separated when their ship was wrecked in a storm at sea. They both end up on the island of Illyria, independently, where each of them finds true love, with Olivia and Orsino respectively. The song by Feste the jester, while applying to both sets of lovers, is more directed toward his mistress, Olivia: "O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming."

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Aristotle

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

Aeschylus

Malvolio:

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and
some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
Twelfth Night II, v, 156-159


In this scene, the comic plot (as opposed to the romantic plot) unfolds when Malvolio, Countess Olivia's priggish steward, comes upon a letter that the merrymakers in the play have left for him to find. One night as Sir Toby, Andrew, Maria and Feste are carousing, Malvolio bursts in to scold them for their behavior. His egotism and condescending manner so offends them that they decide to play a practical joke by arranging for him to find a love letter that he will believe is from Olivia to himself. The writer of this anonymous letter suggests that he can become "great" by doing certain things, each of which is more absurd than the next. Malvolio, in his ambitious and pretentious egotism, never questions the validity of the letter, nor the author, whom he firmly believes is Olivia. Later, as he carries out the ridiculous instructions in the letter, Olivia thinks her steward has gone mad and has him locked up.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit
- Peter Ustinov

Richard:
Off with his head
King Richard III - III, iv, 76

(http://www.enotes.com/richard-..../37564#offhead) Richard shouts these words in the Tower of London, where he has accused Lord Hastings of plotting to destroy him. Hastings, who thought himself safe in his friendship with Richard, began a meeting of the Council wishing to set a date for the coronation of Prince Edward as new king. Richard arrives late for the meeting, and realizes Hastings must be removed from his path to the crown. Killing two birds with one stone, he discredits the Queen (who is another obstacle) by suggesting she participated in witchcraft to cause his deformity, baring his withered arm to drive home the point. He tricks Hastings into saying that anyone who practices witchcraft must be executed. At this point Richard jumps up, points to Hastings, and accuses him of "devilish plots" and "damned witch craft," calling him traitor and ordering him immediately beheaded.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Adelle Davis

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain 1835 - 1910

But time growing old teaches all things.
Aeschylus

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
Hesiod

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
Aristophanes

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC

Abraham Lincoln:

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Publius Terentius Afer 185-159 B.C., Roman Dramatist

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

-( Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran 1883 - 1931

p.s: I love this quote

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus 341 BC - 270 BC

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela ,A Long Walk to Freedom

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860

I can make everyone get satisfied but the envier, he just wishes the vanishing of what in the others hands.

mo'aweya ibn abi sufyan

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes


Mark Twain

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
-Paul Eldridge

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Drew~