Good things, when short, are twice as good.
~Baltasar Gracian
There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
~ Josh Billings
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
~Baltasar Gracian
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.
~William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
~William Shakespeare
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
~Dennis Roth
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Concentration alone conquers.
~ Charles Buxton
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
~ Francis Bacon
As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
~ George Santayana
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
The one prudence in life is concentration.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A verse may finde him who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.
~ George Herbert
I saw one excellency was within my reach–it was brevity and I determined to obtain it.
~ John Jay
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]]>” Please do not use that word. Were I not entirely aware of my duty to my family and to my country, I would not have come back tonight… or indeed ever again! ”
~ Princess Ann in Roman Holiday
Martha Shaw: Look, a woman know when a man looks into her eyes and sees someone else.
Young Noah: Now you know that I want to give you all the things that you want, right? But I can’t, because they’re gone… They’re broken.
~The Notebook
Baby: Me? I’m scared of everything. I’m scared of what I saw, I’m scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.
~Dirty Dancing
Jack: Rose! You’re so stupid. Why did you do that, huh? You’re so stupid, Rose. Why did you do that? Why?
Rose: You jump, I jump, right?
~Titanic
William: Would you like something to eat? Something to nibble? Apricots, soaked in honey? Quite why, no one knows, because it stops them tasting like apricots and makes them taste like honey… and if you wanted honey, you could just… buy honey. Instead of apricots. But nevertheless they’re yours if you want them.
~Notting Hill.. Nothing Romantic or was it? But it was so original…
William: Please, sod off.
Anna Scott: Ok.
William: No, no, no! I thought you were someone else. I mean I thought you were Spike, but I’m thrilled you’re not.
~Notting Hill
Scarlett: Sir, you..you should have made your presence known.
Rhett: In the middle of that beautiful love scene? That wouldn’t be very tactful, would it? But don’t worry, your secret is safe with me.
Scarlett: Sir, you are no gentleman.
Rhett: And you, miss, are no lady…Don’t think that I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me.
~Gone With The Winds
Another Scene
Rhett: Open your eyes and look at me. No, I don’t think I will kiss you – although you need kissing badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.
~Gone With The Winds
Vivian: When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would- I would pretend I was a princess… trapped in a tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly this knight… on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. And I would wave. And he would climb up the tower and rescue me. But never in all the time… that I had this dream did the knight say to me, “Come on, baby, I’ll put you up in a great condo.”
~Pretty Women
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]]>Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
My home is not a place, it is people.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
~Lucille Ball
There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside.
~Cicero
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
~Aristophanes
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
~Robert Frost
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
~ Matsuo Basho
Peace – that was the other name for home.
~Kathleen Norris
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
~ Mother Teresa
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
~John Ed Pearce
A good home must be made, not bought.
~Joyce Maynard
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments
~ Channing Pollock
Not going home is already like death.
~E. Catherine Toble
And a Funyn quote on Home:
I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
~W. C. Fields
Another fuinny one:
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
~Andy Warhol
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]]>Here are some of Annie Besant’s Famous quotes.
“Thus, as Spirits, we are inherently, indefensibly divine, with all the splendor and freedom implied in that word.”
“The Society is intended, always has been intended, to be a living body and not a fossil, and a living body grows and develops, adapting itself to new conditions.”
~ Annie Besant
“No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.”
~Annie Besant

“Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.”
~Annie Basant
“Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.”
“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”
“To feel life expressing itself, flowing forth, expanding, increasing, this is at once the result of the Will to Live, and its fruition in the Bliss of living.”
“It is important to understand that the evolution of the individual “I” is a Self-chosen activity. We are here because we Will to Live; “none else compels”
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]]>Starting with this hope quote on love, “Love comes to those who still hope even though they’ve been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they’ve been betrayed, to those who still love even though they’ve been hurt before.”
~Unknown
” Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.”
~George Weinberg
” Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ”
~Mignon McLaughlin
“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ”
~Robert Ingersoll
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
~Eskimo sayings
“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.”
~Arabian Proverb
” Love floods us with hope.”
~Jareb Teague
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out”
~ Vaclav Havel
” Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ”
~George Iles
“Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.”
~Unknown
” Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
~Don Quixote
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]]>“Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.”
~Virgil
“A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? / To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.”
~ Bible quotes
“Public calamity is a mighty leveler”
~ Edmund Burke
“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”
~Oliver Goldsmith
“Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.”
~ William Shakespeare
“He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.”
~Philip Massinger
“Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.”
~ William Davenant
“Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid”
~ Publilius Syrus
“Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.”
~Bill Watterson
“Calamity is the test of integrity.”
~ Samuel Richardson
“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.”
~ Sun Tzu
And my favorite calamity quote:
“He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.”
~ Bishop Porteous
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]]>“You have your ideology and I have mine.”
~Kahlil Gibran
“The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.”
~Jean Genet
“Ideology has very little to do with ‘consciousness’ – it is profoundly unconscious.”
~Louis Althusser
“You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”
~Hal Borland quotes
“If any ideology is so serious that you can’t have fun while you’re doing it, it’s probably too serious.”
~Larry Wall
“It’s time for greatness — not for greed. It’s a time for idealism — not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.”
~ Marian Wright Edelman
“Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist! ”
~Carl Jung
“Great teachers transcend ideology.”
~Suzanne Fields
“Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ”historical tasks” is an actual or potential assassin. ”
~Albert Camus
“Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. ”
~Albert Camus
“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”
~Eugene Ionesco
“Life has become the ideology of its own absence.”
~Theodor Adorno
You may contribute your own ideology quotes below..
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]]>“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”
~ James Allen
Conservative ideal of freedom and progress: everyone to have an unfettered opportunity of remaining exactly where they are.
~ Geoffrey Madan
“An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.”
~Robert Anton Wilson
“When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.”
~John Oliver Hobbes
“I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. ”
~Carl Sandburg
“To do nothing and get something, formed a boy’s ideal of a manly career.”
~ Benjamin Disraeli
“Some people never have anything except ideals. ”
~E.W. Howe
“All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.”
~ Leo Tolstoy
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”
~ Immanuel Kant
“Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. ”
~Israel Zangwill
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ”
~Norman Douglas
“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. ”
~Henry Ford
“Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals. ”
~G.K. Chesterton
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
~John Ruskin
“Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. ”
~George Bernard Shaw
“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem. ”
~John Galsworthy
Freedom is not an ideal; it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
~Adlai Stevenson
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]]>“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
~Jim Ryun
“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.”
~Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
~ Shaquille ONea
“Habit is stronger than reason”
~George Santayana
Sooner it goes the better because “Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ”
~Yiddish Proverb
And also because it tends to stick harder with time, which is why it is calle habit..
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
~St. Augustine
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
~Thomas Paine
“Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit”
~ Epictetus
“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”
~ Charles C. Noble
“Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
And on a positive note:
“Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits”
~ Robert Puller
“Character is long-standing habit.”
~ Plutarch
“Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ”
~Spanish Proverb
“Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.”
~ Henri de Lubac
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
~Aristotle
“Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves”
~ Horace Bushnell
“In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. ”
~Mignon McLaughlin
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]]>“When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.”
~ Andrew Johnson
“Patriotism is like charity — it begins at home. ”
~ James Henry
“National honor is national property of the highest value.”
~ James Monroe
“What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.”
~ Marilyn vos Savant
“We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others. ”
~ John F Kennedy
“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ”
~ Daniel Webster
“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured”
~Bill Clinton
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.”
~ George Santayana
“Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.”
~ Seneca
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ”
~Abraham Lincoln
One good 4th of july patriotic saying:
“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. ”
~Benjamin Franklin
“Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments”
~ Andrew Jackson, 7th US President (1767-1845)
“We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.”
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
And lastly,
That’s why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women – students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors — found the courage to keep it alive.
~ You all know who Big O
Hope you like our 4th of July quotes
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