Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.
- Franois de la Rochefoucauld (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue
Famous Quotes - La Rochefoucauld
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Without courage you cannot practise any other virtue
Famous Quotes and Sayings - Indira Gandhi
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
- John Lennon
Inflation is like getting stuck in a traffic jam You find you are part of the problem, but you can’t work out what to do about it
Famous Quotes - J F K
Declaration of Independence
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln
Source: February 22, 1861 - Address in Independence Hall
- Abraham Lincoln
Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- George Fabricius 1678-1707, Irish Dramatist
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
- Brooks Atkinson
