Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
William Makepeace Thackeray Quote – “Kindnesses are easily forgotten…”
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind? William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “If man were a unity instead of…”
If man were a unity instead of being a multiplicity, he would have true individuality. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Jalal al-Din Rumi Quote – “Why do you stay in prison…?”
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273)
William Shakespeare Quote – “To expostulate what majesty should be, what duty is…”
To expostulate what majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Everyone thinks of changing the world…”
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Samuel Johnson Quote – “Let observation with extensive view survey mankind…”
Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life; Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O’erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate, Where wav’ring man, betray’d by vent’rous pride To tread the dreary paths without a guide, As treach’rous […]
William Shakespeare Quote – “O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!…”
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables — meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least I’m sure it may be so in Denmark. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
William Shakespeare Quote – “Do not, as some ungracious pastors do…”
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
William Shakespeare Quote – “Till now you have gone on and fill’d the time with all licentious measure…”
Till now you have gone on and fill’d the time With all licentious measure, making your wills The scope of justice; till now myself and such As slept with our traversed arms, and breathed Our sufferance vainly: now the time is flush, When crouching marrow in the bearer strong Cries of itself, “No more.” William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
