50 Well Known Quotations

1. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; Its loveliness increases; It will never pass into nothingness. - Keats: Endymion
2. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing — Pope
3. Beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all. Ye know on earth, all all ye need to know - Keats: Ode on a Grecian urn
4. All the world is a stage and all the man and women merely players - Shakespeare: As you like it
5. Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested —Bacon
6. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven - Milton: Paradise lost
7. The child is father of the man - Wordsworth: My heart leaps up
8. A single step for man — a giant leap for mankind - Neil Armstrong
9. Dilli Chalo — Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
10. To be or not to be — that is the question. - Shakespeare: Hamlet
11. Only free men negotiate. I shall never negotiate while
I am still a prisoner — Nelson Mandela
12. Truth and non-violence are my God - Mahatama Gandhi
13. Let a hundred flowers bloom and let a thousand schools of thought contend — Mao Tse-tung
14. Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan — Lal Bahadur Shastri
15. Eureka! Eureka! — Archimedes
16. Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them - Shakespeare
17. Where wealth accumulates, men decay - Goldsmith
18. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely — Lord Acton
19. Man is by nature a political animal — Aristotle
20. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat — Winston Churchill
21. I came, I saw, I conquered — Julius Ceaser
22. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread - Pope
23. Generations to come, it may, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth — Einstein
24. Government of the people, by the people, for the people — Lincon
25. East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet — Kipling
26. Swaraj is my birth right — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
27. Cowards die many times before their death: The valiant never taste of death but once - Shakespeare: Julius Ceaser
28. Where ignorance is bliss, It is folly to be wise - Grey
29. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance - Socrates
30. We are such stuff as dreams are made of and our little life is rounded with a sleep - Shakespeare: The Tempest
31. What's in a name?
 That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet - Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice
32. Patriotism is the best refuge of a scoundrel - Samuel Johnson
33. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man — Francis Bacon
34. It is excellent to love a giant's strength but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant - Shakespeare: Measure to Measure
35. Water, water everywhere
Not any drop to drink - S.T. Coleridge: The Ancient Mainer
36. It is strange but true, for truth is always strange - Byron: Don Juan
37. Virtue is its own reward — Cicero: De Fintibus
38. Frailty, thy name is woman - Shakespeare: Hamlet
39. We don't fear to negotiate, but we do not negotiate out of fear — J.F. Kennedy
40. Give us good mothers and I shall give you good nation — Napoleon
41. The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep — Robert Frost
42. We have made a tryst with destiny — Pt. Nehru
43. Eli, Eli, Lamma Sabcathani (My God, my God, why last thou forsaken me) - Jesus Christ at the Cross
44. If winter comes can spring be for behind - Shelley
45. Man does not live by bread alone — Bible
46. Nothing is good or bad, thinking makes it so - Shakespeare: Hamlet
47. Garibi hatao — Indira Gandhi
48. Aram haram hai — Jawaharlal Nehru
49. Quit India — Mahatma Gandhi
50. Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan - Atal Behari Vajpayee