Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Famous Quotations and Funny Sayings

"When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top."
Unknown Source &bull Averages

"It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you."
Woodrow T. Wilson &bull Critics

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."
Winston Churchill &bull Achievement

"We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly."
Voltaire &bull Manners

"Most people would rather die than think: many do."
Bertrand Russell &bull Death

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(1795-1881) British historian and essayist.

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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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