women empowerment quotes

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ~Edgar Allan Poe



For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. ~Francis Bacon



Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. ~Hippocrates



One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb



I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. ~Tagore



Ah, yes! the Torture Garden! Passions, appetites, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. What I saw today, and what I heard, is no more than a symbol to me of the entire earth. I have vainly sought a respite in quietude and repose in death, and I can find them nowhere. ~"The Garden," Chapter 9 AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ~Susan Sontag



A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it. ~Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727



Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. ~Author Unknown



Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld



All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~Martin H. Fischer



A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. ~Thomas Macaulay



Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson



Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life. ~Lionel Poilane



Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ~Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia, A Land of Plenty



The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. ~John Locke



The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. ~W. Somerset Maugham



An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet



If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. ~John Lubbock



There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. ~Charlotte Dacre, The Passions, 1811



I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. ~Andre Gide