Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
- The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
- George Jellinek
- Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.
- Richard Guggenheimer
- A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
- Chaim Weizmann (1874 - 1952)
- To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.
- Leopold Stein
- No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
- Harold Laki
- To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
- Henry Beston
- People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}