Quotes
Quotes about World
Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Hearts that are delicate and kind, and tongues that are neitherâthese makes the finest company in the world.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is.
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.
There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave.
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief with thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world in such a strain As it should deluge once again; But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes, I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds And write thy epitaph in blood and wounds.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet; 'Twas a beautiful mist falling down to your wrist, 'Twas a thing to be braided, and jewelled, and kissed-- 'Twas the loveliest hair in the world, my pet.
If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; The world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut,--our home.
Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simpleâyet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
