Grinton I Will Quotes & Sayings

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty! — James Monroe

Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement. — Paul Tournier

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow. — Colman McCarthy

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. — Oscar Wilde

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds. — Benjamin Franklin

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent. — Nikola Tesla

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday. — Herbert Hoover

I will protect you. From others and yourself. Always — Jasinda Wilder

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me. — Logan Pearsall Smith

As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's. — P. J. O'Rourke

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything. — Tom Stoppard