Best Quotes

“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”

William Shakespeare

“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”

Oscar Wilde

“Better slip with foot than tongue.”

Benjamin Franklin

“A good example is the best sermon.”

Benjamin Franklin

“'Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”

Benjamin Franklin

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”

Samuel Johnson

“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.”

Samuel Johnson

“Knowledge itself is power.”

Francis Bacon

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

Francis Bacon

“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”

Alexander Pope

“The rank is but the guinea's stamp, the man's the gowd for a' that.”

Robert Burns

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”

Charles Dickens

“Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

Charles Dickens

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.”

Jane Austen

“Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

Thomas Jefferson

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

George Washington

“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”

Aesop

“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”

Aesop

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.”

Kahlil Gibran