Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Thomas Jefferson [letter,1807]...
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy....
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome ['Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow', 1886]...
Example is always more effacious than precept. Samuel Johnson [letter, 1859]
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1784]...
Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a package you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1773]...
Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1777]...
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson [Seward's 'Biographia', 1799]...
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Joineriana
Calumnies are answered best with silence. BenJonson ['Volpone', 1605]

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