Famous Quotations by Dave Mckay (best short books to read TXT) 📕

The Easy English Book of Quotations

Compiled by Dave McKay

Smashwords Edition

copyright 2014

ISBN 9781311574671

Contents

1. Quotes About Quotes

2. Some of the Best

3. Care for the Earth

4. Truth

5. Sincerity

6. Integrity

7. Good vs Evil

8. Fear

9. Courage

10. Don’t Give Up!

11. Helping Others

12. Kindness

13. Love

14. To Make You Laugh

15. Bad Habits

16. Actions

17. Hard Work

18. Business

19. Money

20. Jesus Christ

21. Nature and God

22. Religion

23. Dreams and Hopes

24. How to be Successful

25. Planning Ahead

26. Time

27. The Young and the Old

28. Family Life

29. Friends

30. Working Together

31. Politics

32. War and Peace

33. Happiness

34. Being Bitter or Forgiving?

35. Arguments

36. Patience

37. Teaching and Learning

38. Reading and Writing

39. Talking

40. Who to Believe

41. Confidence

42. Positive Thinking

43. A Reason to Live

44. Life and Death

45. Health

46. Discipline

47. Worry

48. Leaders and Followers

49. Wise Choices

50. Little Things

51. Being Different

52. Beauty

53. Entertainment and Sports

54. The Law and Lawyers

55. Freedom

56. Animals

57. Music and Art

58. Travel

59. Change

60. Computers and Other Inventions

61. Humility

62. Leftovers

Dictionary

1. Quotes About Quotes

It is a good thing

for an uneducated man

to read books of quotes.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965), former British Prime Minister

Now and then I come across a saying

which has meaning for me,

and it becomes a part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), English playwright and novellist,

Of Human Bondage, 1915

A good saying answers where the sermon fails,

just as a small hand gun

will kill more than a whole barrel of gunpowder

exploded in the air.

William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), American writer and historian

Quotes with a point are a blessing

to people who have become shallow.

Louise Guiney (1861-1920), American poet and essayist

The surest way to make a monkey of a man

is to quote him.

Robert Benchley (1889-1945), American humourist and columnist

2. Some of the Best

A trip of a thousand miles

must begin with a single step.

Lao Tzu, founder of Taoism (about 500 BC)

One rule sums up all the others,

and that rule is to love...

first, love God, and then, love others.

Jesus, Matthew 22:37-40

Work like you don’t need the money.

Love like you’ve never been hurt.

Dance like nobody’s watching.

Satchel Paige (1906-1982), African-American baseball player

If you would not be forgotten

as soon as you are dead and rotten,

either write something worth reading

or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790), American inventor and statesman

Truth will not break like a bubble, at a touch;

no, you may kick it about all day like a football,

and it will be round and full at evening.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), American doctor and writer

Whoever talks to you about others

will talk to others about you.

Spanish Proverb

Do to others

what you would want them to do to you.

Jesus, Matthew 7:12

You have to kiss a lot of frogs

to find your prince.

Author unknown

Anyone who does anything important

is surely going to be hated, and misunderstood.

Every great man understands it;

and understands, too,

that being hated is no proof of being great.

The last proof of being great lies in being able to take the hate without becoming bitter.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915), American writer, artist, phlosopher

If your enemy is hungry feed him;

if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing

you shall pile coals of fire on his head.

The Bible, Romans 12:20.

Think how hard it is to change yourself

and you’ll understand what little chance you

have of changing others.

Jacob M. Braude, author of Braude's Treasure of Wit and Humour

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into

some work you believe in with all your heart.

Live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness

that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), American self-improvement lecturer and author of

How to Win Friends and Influence People

The time will never be ‘just right’.

Start where you stand,

and work with whatever tools you have.

Better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), American author

If you don’t like something, change it.

If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou (1923- ), American author and poet

A bank manager is a person

who lends you his umbrella

when the weather is clear,

but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Mark Twain (1835-1910), American author and humourist

A great weight was lifted from my shoulders

the day I learned that no one owes me anything.

Harry Browne (1933-2006), writer, politician and market analyst

Don’t cripple your children

by making their lives easy.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988), science fiction writer

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life,

most of which never happened.

Mark Twain (1835-1910), American author and humourist

Making the simple hard to understand

happens all the time;

making the hard to understand simple,

very simple,

that’s the mark of a truly wise person.

Charles Mingus (1922-1979), jazz musician

The way to have friends is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emercson (1803-1882), poet, lecturer, and essayist

Forced to choose between

turning against my country

or turning against my friend,

I pray that I would have the strength

to turn against my country.

E. M. Forster (1879-1970), Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)

When I work fourteen hours a day,

seven days a week, I get lucky.

Armand Hammer (1898 - 1990), business tycoon

Nothing is especially hard

if you break it down into small jobs.

Henry Ford (1863-1947), American industrialist

and founder of the Ford Motor Company,

who pioneered assembly lines

Only one life. It will soon be past.

Only what’s done for love will last.

Charles T. Studd (1860-1931), missionary to China, India, and Africa

A man may fall many times

but he won’t be without hope

until he says someone pushed him.

Elmer G. Leterman (1897-1982), author and insurance broker

Don’t spend your time asking

‘Why isn’t the world a better place?’

It will be time wasted.

The question to ask is

‘How can I make it better?’

To that there is an answer.

Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998), author and motivational speaker

There is so much good in the worst of us,

And so much bad in the best of us,

That it does not become any of us

To talk about the rest of us.

Edward Wallis Hoch (1849-1925), lecturer and ex-governor of Kansas

You can no more win a war

than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), first American Congresswoman

They laugh at you, then they fight you,

and then you win.

Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), pacifist & ideological leader of India

Let someone else blow your horn,

and the sound will travel twice as far.

Mark Twain (1835-1910), American author and humourist

You will find as you look back on your life

that the times when you have truly lived

are the times when you have done things

in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond (1851-1897), scientist and author

A lie gets halfway around the world before the

truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965), former British Prime Minister

Find a job you like

and you add five days to every week.

Jackson Brown, Jr, American inspirational author

I never did a day’s work in my life.

It was all fun.

Thomas Edison (1847-1931), inventor and scientist

God does not expect us to be perfect,

but he does expect us to try to be perfect.

Anonymous

My country is the earth,

and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author, inventor, revolutionary,

intellectual

The Rights of Man part 2 (1792), page 414

We were made to help each other.

If you have something to teach us, do it.

If not, listen to what we are teaching.

Aristotle (384-322 B.C), philosopher, teacher of Alexander the Great

Auctoritates Aristotelis, (ed. J. Hamesse, 1974),

Success seems to be mostly a matter of

hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather (1889-1981), author and publisher

Words once spoken

can never be brought back.

Wentworth Dillon (1630-1685), poet, fourth Earl of Roscommon

Talk between two people becomes an argument

when one or the other stops listening.

Anonymous

Good fences make good neighbours.

mid-17th Century proverb

Better a fence at the top of the cliff

than a hospital at the bottom.

Frederick Truby King (1858-1938), New Zealand health reformer

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes;

he who does not ask stays a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

If you do not have something worth dying for,

you do not have anything worth living for.

Martin Luther King (1929-1968), civil rights activist, Baptist minister

People should read what they want to read.

What they are forced to read

will do them little good.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English writer and lexicographer

Boswell Life volume 1, page 428 (14 July, 1763),

Not my will, but yours, be done.

Jesus, praying before he died, in Luke 22:42

A sincere person

is one who wants to know the truth so much

that they are willing to change their actions

if the truth shows that they are wrong.

Anonymous

The truth that makes people free

is, for the most part,

the truth that they choose not to hear.

Herbert Agar (1897-1980), A Time for Greatness (1942), chapter 7

Do not believe all that you hear,

and do not say all that you believe.

Author unknown

Being an adult means being able to say

‘I’m sorry you feel like that,’

and then walk away. That’s hard.

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949- ), in A Civil Campaign, 1999

When good people do nothing,

it is all that evil people need to win.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish stateman and philosopher

When planning for a year,

plant corn.

When planningfor ten years,

plant trees.

When planning for life,

teach children.

Kwan-Tsu (740-645 BC)

What kind of place would this world be,

If everybody in it was just like me?

Author unknown

Not many sounds in life

are more interesting than a knock at the door.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834), Essays of Elia (1823), ‘Valentine’s Day’

The more arguments you win,

the less friends you have.

American proverb

“My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your

ways are not my ways,” says God.

The Bible, Isaiah 55:8

We are guilty of all the good that we did not do.

Voltaire (1694-1778), French writer, historian, philosopher

Dying does not take a smart person by surprise.

Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), poet and fable-teller

Change yourself and you change the world.

Anonymous

Why do you call me Lord,

if you will not do what I say?

Jesus, Luke 6:46

It is not that Christianity

has been tried and did not work.

It is that people could see that it was difficult,

and because of this, they have never tried it.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer and Christian apologist

What’s Wrong with the World (1910), part 1

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.

The Bible, Psalm 111:10

If you want to be rich,

you must learn to buy less.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English writer and lexicographer

Life volume 4, page 157 (letter, 7 December, 1782),

A little more.

John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), oil magnate and philanthropist

when asked how much money a person needs to be happy

Think about the flowers in the field,

how they grow.

They do not work and they do not make cloth.

But I say that Solomon with all his wealth,

was not dressed as well as one of them.

Jesus, Matthew 6:28

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd American president

4 March, 1933, in Public Papers (1938), volume 1

The pen is stronger than the sword.

Edwin Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), writer and politician

3. Care for the Earth

It takes two things to make a country rich:

water and peace.

African proverb

Do not spit in the well.

You may be thirsty by and by.

Russian proverb

Thank God men cannot as yet fly

and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), author, poet and philosopher

Don't blow it. Good planets are hard to find.

Time magazine

God will destroy those who destroy the earth.

The Bible, Revelation 11:18

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

James G. Watt, Newsweek (8 March, 1982)

The sun, the moon, and the stars would have

been destroyed long ago, had they

happened to be in the reach of human hands.

Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), The Dance of Life (1923)

4. Truth

God made Truth with many doors to welcome

every believer who knocks on them.

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-American author

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a

time, but it’s not going to go away.

Elvis Presley (1935-1977), American singer

Truth can receive all lights.

3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), Sensus Communis (1709),

Long is the way, and hard,

that leads out of the dark

and up to the light.

John Milton (1608-1674),English poet5, Paradise Lost (1667), book 2

Give light,

and the darkness will go away of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch humanist and priest

Adults can learn from very little children.

The Great Spirit may show to them

many things which older people miss.

Black Elk (1863-1950), Sioux holy man

Truth is a land without roads.

You do not go there by following a religion.

J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986), speech in Holland, 3 August, 1929

One truth must be on another truth:

truth on truth, line on line,

here a little and there a little.

The Bible, Isaiah 28:10

All truths are half truths.

It is thinking that they are whole truths

that makes devils of us.

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), Dialogues (1954), prologue

It is one thing to show a person that he is wrong,

but it is a very different thing

to give that person the truth.

John Locke (1632-1704), Essay concerning Human Understanding

Truth sits on the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), Sohrab and Rustum

If you stay in my teachings,

you will know the truth,

and the truth will make you free.

Jesus, John 8:31-32

I love Plato, but I love truth more.

Aristophanes (c.450-c.385), Greek comedic playwright

It is truth that you cannot win against.

You can very easily win against me.

Socrates (469-399 BC), Plato Symposium 201d

The old always fights against the new.

Author unknown

All colours will agree in the dark.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English scientist, lawyer, and statesman

But it does move.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), after giving in to church leaders, in 1632,

who said it was wrong to say that the earth moves around the sun.

To wear the coat of Galileo

it is not enough that people are against you.

You must also be right.

Robert Park (1864-1944), American sociologist

It is dangerous to be right

when the government is wrong.

Voltaire (1694-1778), French writer, historian, and philosopher

Every man has a right to say

what he thinks is true, and every other man

has a right to knock him down for it.

Dying as a martyr is the test.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English writer and lexicographer

True, it is the salt of the earth;

but no one wants salt rubbed into their sores.

Rebecca West (1892-1983), The Salt of the Earth (1935), chapter 2

There is one thing stronger than

all the armies in the world,

and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer and