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The Thoughts of Great Minds…







An old man is twice a child.

                                    ---W. Shakespeare

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

                                                                           ---Edmund Burke

Sweet are the users of adversity.

                                              ---W. Shakespeare

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

                                                                   ---M.T. Cicero

Disputation cannot be held without reprehension.

                                                                    ---Michel De Montaigne


The unexamined  is not worth living.

                                                                  Socrates


Architecture is general is frozen music.

                                                       ---F.V. Schelling

Old age, more to be feared than death.

                                                            ---Juvenal

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

                                             ---Thomas Dekker

Man is by nature a political animal.

                                                   ---Aristotle

Appetite comes from eating.

                                        ---Francois Rabelais

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

                                                           ---O.W. Holmes

An honest man’s word is as good as his mind.
  
                                                           ---Miguel De Cervantes

Never read any book that is not a year old.

                                                           ---R.W. Emerson

A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey.

                                                                              ---Publilius Syrus

None but the brave deserves the fair.

                                                    ---John Dryden

Absence is the death of love.

                                       ---Pedro Calderon

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.

                                                                     ---P. Syrus

Nights darkness is bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

                                                                         ---Rabindra Nath Tagore

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

                                               ---Benjamin Disraeli

Evil by itself has no legs to stand upon.

                                                 ---Mahatma Gandhi


All delays are dangerous in war.

                                               ---John Dryden


When all think alike, no one thinks very much.

                                                             ---Walter Lippmann

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

                                                         ---W. Shakespeare

The greatest of evils and worst of crimes is poverty.

                                                         ---George Bernard Shaw

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day    after tomorrow.

                                                                                                       ---Mark Twain
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

                                                                               ---Henri Bergson


The toughest think about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.

                                                                              ---Irving Berlin

Life is a foreign language :  all men mispronounce it.

                                                                     ---Christopher Morley

The time to repair to roof  when the sun is shining.

                                                                    ---David Lloyd George

Life is short and so is money.

                                 ---Bertolt Brecht

He who begins many things finishes nothing.

                                                                     ---C. Simmon


It is the mind that makes the body rich.

                                                    ---W. Shakespeare

Necessity is the mother of invention.

                                                        ---Richard Frank

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

                                                      ---Mahatma Gandhi

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

                                                                                 ---Francis Bacon

Pen is mightier than the sword.

                                        ---E.G.Bulwer-Lylton

Plan your work  and then work your plan.

                                                               ---Anonymous

One good schoolmaster is of more than a hundred priests.

                                                                                ---Thomas paine



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