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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot
Dead
,
Until
,
Forgotten
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare
Faith
,
Great
,
Men
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde
Love
,
Women
,
Everything
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington
Experience
,
Enemy
,
After
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Ronald Reagan
Problems
,
Solve
,
Tend
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner
Nice
,
Down
,
Meet
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
William Shakespeare
Nothing
,
Everything
,
Husbands
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Women
,
Great
,
Men
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel
Women
,
Men
,
Mother
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare
Tears
,
Prepare
,
Shed
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Good
,
Great
,
Character
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde
Others
,
Away
,
Afraid
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare
Help
,
Enough
,
After
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis
Marriage
,
Between
,
Hidden
Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.
Erma Bombeck
Wrong
,
Kids
,
House
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare
Great
,
Men
,
Loved
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas Sowell
Trust
,
Failure
,
Dangerous
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
Men
,
Power
,
Government
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Live
,
Confidence
,
Honesty
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Bruce Lee
Principles
,
Bound
,
Obey
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Age
,
Enough
,
Old
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama
Two
,
Old
,
Baby
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Henry Rollins
Love
,
Work
,
Hate
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle
Power
,
Democracy
,
Rich
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin Franklin
Family
,
Lives
,
While
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
Yourself
,
Before
,
Expect
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Martin Luther
Heart
,
Hell
,
Afraid
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Swami Vivekananda
Cannot
,
Hand
,
Hands
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama
Marriage
,
Gay
,
Woman
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
Mother
,
Sleep
,
Children
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