Some quotes

From William Shakespeare:

"The time of life is short; To spend that shotrness basely were too long."

(Henry IV)

"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."

(The Taming of the Shrew)

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

(Twelfth Night)

"Men of few words are the best men."

(Henry VI)

"My salad says, When I was green in judgment."

(Antony and Cleopatra) From Mark Twain:

"One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."

("Pudd'nhead Wildson's Calendar) From Alexander Pope: "'Tis with our judgments as our watches - none Go just alike, yet each believes his own" (Essay on Criticism, Part I) "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." (Essay on Criticism, Part II) "To err is human, to forgive divine." (Essay on Criticism, Part II) "In words as fashions, the same rules will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old; Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." (Essay on Criticism, Part II) "Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." (Essay on Criticism, Part II) "A little learning is a dangerous thinkg; Drink deep, or tast not eh Pierian spring: There shall drafts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." (Essay on Criticism, Part II) "'Tis education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined." (Moral Essays, "Epistle I) "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man." (The Essay on Man, "Epistle II") "Worth makes he man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello." (The Essay on Man, "Epistle IV") "A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God." (The Essay on Man, "Epistle IV") "Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is but always to be blest." (The Essay on Man, "Epistle") From William Wordsworth: "My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky." ("My Heart Leaps Up") "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!" ("The Prelude, XI") From John Keats: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." ("Epitaph") From Rudyard Kipling: "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never twain shall met, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat." ("The Ballad of East and West") "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forgt - lest we forget!" ("Recessional") From Robert Louis Stevenson: "Here he lies, where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." ("Requiem") From Sara Teasdale: "Life has loveliness to sell -" ("Barter") From Ulysss S. Grant: "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effecgtive as their stringent execution." (Inaugural Address, 1869) From Joyce Kilmer: "Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree." ("Trees") From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Let the dead Past bury its dead." ("A Psalm of Life") From Abraham Lincoln: "With malce toward none; with charity for all." (Second Inaugural Adress, March 4, 1865)