Favourite Quotations
Send in your favourite quotations to be include here. (websiteupdates@knoxguelph.ca)Ten quotations to start the flow:
10) All doors open to courtesy. THOMAS FULLER, M.D. Gnomologia (1732), 512. (submitted by Ian C. 10/09)
9) It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. BENJAMIN DISREALI, speech, Jan. 24, 1860 (submitted by Ian C. 10/09)
8) Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice. ITALIAN PROVERB (submitted by Ian C.)
7) Decisons: Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. NAPOLEON I, Maxims (1804-15) (submitted by Ian C.10/09)
6) The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. CHARLES LAMB, "The Athenaeum,"Jan. 4, 1834 (Submitted by Ian C 10/09)
5) True Friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it's lost. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon (1825) 1.36 (submitted by Ian C.)
4) Change is the law of life. And those who look to the past or present are certain to miss the future. JOHN F. KENNEDY, address, Frankfurt. West Germany, June 25, 1963. (submitted by Ian C.)
3) The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. WILLIAM CONNOR MAGEE, sermon, 1868 (submitted by Ian C.)
2) A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses the hours. MILTON BERLE, news summaries July 1, 1954 (submitted by Ian C.)
1) Canada; Geography has made us (America & Canada) neighbors, History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us Allies. Those who nature hath joined together, let no man put asunder. JOHN F. KENNEDY, address to Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, May 17, 1961. (submitted by Ian C.)
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