Tis not in mortals to command success, but well do more, Sempronius, well deserve it. – Joseph Addison Category: Worth
Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear. – Proverb Category: Worth
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens Category: Worth
You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back. – Wayne Dyer Category: Worth
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox Category: Friendship
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after theyve told you what it is you want to hear. – Alan Coren Category: Democracy
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a mans nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. – Francis Bacon Category: Nature
The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them. – Gary Saul Morson, “Bakhtin, The Genres of Quotation, and The Aphoristic Consciou Category: Quotations
