Success before Work

The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.


- Vidal Sassoon


Business Like Strangers

Live together like brothers, and do business like strangers.

- Anonymous

Interest and Fear

There are two levers for moving men --- interest and fear.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

They came by Work

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

- Thomas A. Edison

I Love Argument

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

- Margaret Thatcher

Able to Decide

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

- Napoleon I

Each Single Thing

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

- Charles Dickens

What Experience and History Teach

What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learnt anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

- Georg Wilhelm Hegel

Grown-ups never Understand

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I Have a Dream

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unutterably Vain

Vain are the thousand creeds
that move men's hearts:
unutterably vain.

- Emily Bronte

All are Losers

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

- Neville Chamberlain

Love is like Linen


Love is like linen often changed, the sweeter.

- Phineas Fletcher


New Opinions

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

- John Locke

Love of Money


It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.


- Samuel Butler