Some Popular Quotations From Great Men

March 26, 2010
By Premraj Chourdia
Some-Great-men● Hey Ram. —Mahatma Gandhi

● Jan Gan Man Adhinayak Jai Hey. —Rabindra Nath Tagore

● And all the men and women merely players. —Shakespeare (As You Like It)

● Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like a toad, ugly and Venomous. Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. —Shakespeare (As You Like It)

● Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven. —Milton

● Et Tu, Brute ! —Shakespeare (Julius Ceaser)


● Good Government is no substitute for self Government. —Morley

● Death is the end of life, ah why should life all labour be. —Alfred Tennyson

● Full many a gem of purest ray serene, the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. —Thomas Gray

● And fools, who came to scoff, Remained to pray. —Oliver Goldsmith


● “…Seditious fakir striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceroy’s palace there to negotiate and parley on equal terms with the representative of the King Emperor.” —Winston Churchill

● “Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this (Mahatma Gandhi) ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.” —Einstein

● “Whom the Gods love die young.” —Byron (Don Juan)

● “Necessity is the mother of invention.” —Unknown Latin Proverb


● “For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” —Pope

● “A single step for a man–a giant leap for mankind.” —Neil Armstrong

● “Thank God, I have done my duty.” —Admiral Nelson

● “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and Sweat.” —Winston Churchill


● “Man is by nature a political animal.” —Aristotle

● “To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” —Issaac Newton

● Eureke ! Eureka ! —Archimedes

● “Let a hundred flowers bloom and let a thousand schools of thought contend.” —Mao Tsetung


● “Frailty, thy name is woman.” —Shakespeare (Hamlet)

● “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.” —Shelley (To a Skylark)

● “To maintain a fault known is a double fault.” —John Jewel

● “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”—that is all. Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” —Keats


● “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” —Bacon

● “Knowledge is power.” —Francis Bacon

● “There is no future in any job, the future lies in the man who holds the job.” —G.W. Crane


● “Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.” —Jean Anovilh

● “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” —George Orwell

● “If it were not for hopes, the hearts would break.” —Thomas Fuller

● “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to wake mistake.” —Mahatma Gandhi


● “Hate the sin, love the sinner.” —Mahatma Gandhi

● “Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.” —Jawaharlal Nehru

● “The only alternative to co-existence is codestruction.” —Jawaharlal Nehru

● “History is moving and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.” —George W. Bush


● “All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words : freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.” —Sir Winston Churchill

One Response to Some Popular Quotations From Great Men

  1. Atlanta movers on June 9, 2010 at 12:32 pm

    If we follow all these ideas I think we will make a beautiful and fantastic world.

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