Great Quotes
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
I'll see you in my dreams.
The desire to write grows with writing.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
We are anthill men upon an anthill world.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
The groves were God's first temples.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
Toleration is the best religion.
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
Fortune befriends the bold.
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
I am a part of all that I have meet.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Know how to live the time that is given you.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
We make war that we may live in peace.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Certain books form a treasure, a basis, once read they will serve you for the rest of your live.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
It is forbidden to kill, therefore all killers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
By the work one knows the workman.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Education is the best provision for old age.
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
Think with your whole body.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
The Great Quotes plugin provides an easy way to add rotating quotations to a WordPress site. It supports multiple widgets and multiple shortcodes per page. Clicking on the author’s name opens a new tab with his Wikipedia entry. It provides the ability to add, edit, and delete quotations. Approximately 20,000 quotes are pre-loaded into the database.
The plugin randomly chooses 200 quotes from the database each time a page is displayed that contains a Great Quotes widget or shortcode. Limiting the number of quotes loaded is done to avoid noticeably slowing the page load time. Besides, reading thru 200 quotes takes a considerable time – it’s unlikely a website visitor will read that many before going to another page.
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Great Quotes
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Great Quotes
Installation Instructions
- Upload ‘great-quotes’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Usage Instructions
To enter quotations, go to Tools > Great Quotes
To display “great quotes” on a web page you have two options:
1) Add a shortcode, examples below, to a page (more than one is ok). All options are optional.
[GreatQuotes]
[GreatQuotes title="Great Quotes" delay="20000" fontsize="15" textcolor="blue"]
The shortcode options can also be edited at Settings > Great Quotes. If a shortcode does not included a short-code option, the default will be taken from the Options page.
2) Create a widget(s) got to Appearance > Widgets
If you decide to enter quotations with more than 170 or so characters, or use a font size great than 20, you’ll probably need to modify the CSS.
To modify a shortcode, do something like the following:
#Silder_holder# .bx-wrapper .bx-viewport { height: 300px !important; } Use Google Chrome "Inspect" (right click on quote/Inspect)to determine what to substitute for the # above. It will be "1" unless you have more than one shortcode on your page.
Similarly, to modify a widget, do something like the following:
Silder_holdergreat_quotes_widget_# .bx-wrapper .bx-viewport {
height: 300px !important;
}
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I include more than one shortcode on a page?
Yes, the plugin is designed to handle more than one quote area on an individual page.
Can I have more than one Great Quote widget on my site?
Yes.
Can I put HTML code in the quote?
Yes.
Can Great Quotes make my quotes look exactly like I want them to?
Maybe not. It’s likely you’ll want to add some CSS to your site to get it to look exactly the way you want. If you don’t know what CSS means, well, that’s going to be a problem. CSS is a bit confusing. Start here.
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