Popular Quotes

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.

- Brendan Behan

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

- Aesop

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

- Norman Douglas

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

- Margot Asquith

Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

- Thomas Carlyle

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

- William Shakespeare

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.

- Samuel Johnson

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

- Diogenes

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

- George Washington

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you.

- Bible

Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, Old age is slow in both.

- Joseph Addison

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

- Thomas Fuller

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

- Mark Twain

Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

- William Hazlitt

It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.

- Seneca

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

- Edgar Watson Howe

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

- Pauline Kael

Alive, ridiculous, and dead forgot?

- Alexander Pope