Grammar and Literature:

Important Quotations from Different Disciplines

1. “I have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal” - Martin Luther King.
2. “They think too little who talk too much” - Dryden
3. “Superstition is a religion of feeble minded person” - Edmund Burke
4. East is East and West is West Never the twain shall meet. -Rudyard Kipling
5. Knowledge is power -Hobbes
6. Give me good mothers and I shall give you a good nation -Napoleon.
7. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man and writing an exact man -Francis Bacon.
8. Man is by nature a political animal- -Aristotle
9. The unexamined life is not worth living -Socrates.
10. Religion is the opium of the people -Karl Marks.
11. Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains -Rousseau.
12. Liberty consists in doing what one desires -John Stuart Mill.
13. A face that cannot smile is never good - Martial
14. Ability is a poor man's wealth -M Wern
15. Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant, is a mind deserted - Cowper
16. Admiration is the daughter of ignorance -Franklin
17. Economy is half the battle of life, it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well purgeon
18. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty -Jefferson
19. Example is better than precept - S. Smiles
20. God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent Him -Hobbes
21. God is on the side of big battalions -George Bernard Shaw
22. God made the country and man made the town -Cowper
23. Government of the people, by the people, for the people -Abraham Lincoln
24. You may fool some of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all the people all time
    -Abraham Lincoln
25. Habit if not resisted, soon becomes it necessity - Saint Augustine
26. Help thyself and God will help-thee -Herbert
27. Humanity is the solid foundation of all virtue - Confucius
28. I have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal. -Martin Luther King.
29. I shall not part with as much land by the point of a neddle - Isha Khan
30. Life is not life without delight - Rabindranath Tagore.
31. Live and let live is a rule of common justice - Lord Mansfield
32. Good face is the best letter of recommendation -Queen Elizabeth
33. Man poses, God disposes -Thomas A Kempis
34. Man's conscience is the oracle of God - Lord Byron
35. Men are woman's playthings, woman is the devil's - Victor Hugo
36. No man can be wise on empty stomach - George Eliot
37. None but a fool is always right - Hare
38. One should eat to live, not live to eat -Franklin
39. Pain is the outcome of sin - Gautama Buddha
40. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweeter - Rousseau
41. Philosophy is the art of living - Plutarch
42. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely -Lord Action
43. Prejudice is the child of ignorance -Hazlitti
44. Prejudice is the reason of fools -Voltaire
45. Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life -H. W Beecher
46. Self suffering is the truest test of sincerity - Gandhi
47. Self-preservation is the first law of nature -Samuel Butler
48. Speech is great, but silence is greater - Carlyle
49. Success makes success, as money makes money - Chamfort
50. They think too little who talk much -Dryden
51. "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." written by ………….. - Francis Bacon
52. But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep'. ………….. These lines are from "Stopping by the 54. Woods on a Snowy Evening" written by - Robert Frost
53. A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner ....... written by - Francis Bacon
54. "Thus I enter; and thus I go"…………. a quotation from "The Patriot" written by - Robert Browning.
55. "Shepherd to His Love" written by - Christopher Marlowe
56. 'The government is the best which governs least' - Henry David Thoreau
57. 'Veni, vidi, vici'. is the quotation from- "Julius Caesar - -William Shakespeare
58. 'Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud; I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed.' .......These lines were from "Ode to the West Wind' written by - P.B. Shelley
59. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" was stated by - Lord Acton
60. "Fair daffodils! we weep to see
    You haste away so soon;
    As yet the early rising sun
    Has not attained his noon."-
    …………. These lines are from "To Daffodils" - Robert Herrick
61. 'Popular opinion is the greatest lie' ……… Thomas Carlyle
62. "Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." …….. -Franklin
63. “Death is the golden key that opens the places of eternity” -John Milton
64. “Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds” - Socrates
65. "Help thyself, and God will help them" - Herbert
66. "I slept and dreamed that life was beauty, I waked and found that life was duty." -S. Hooper
67. "Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind". -Shakespeare