How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William Shakespeare

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William Shakespeare

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Robert Frost

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson