Earth
- Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.
--Isaac Watts
- The earth, that is sufficient,
I do not want the constellations any nearer,
I know they are very well where they are,
I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
-- Walt Whitman
- The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.
-- Blaise Pascal
- The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.
-- Gifford Pinchot
- The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
-- Lewis Mumford
- I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.
-- Stephen Vincent Benét
- There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.
-- Bourke Coekran
- I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
- The green earth sends her incense up.
From many a mountain shrine;
From folded leaf and dewey cup
She pours her sacred wine.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier
- How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?
-- Paul Bigelow Sears
- Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
-- Christopher Morley
- Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God.
-- Samuel M. Hageman
Economy
- There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.
-- Beaconsfield
- What this country needs is a good five-cent Nickel.
-- Franklin P. Adams
- It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.
-- Joseph Hall
- Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.
-- Armand Salacrou
- The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair."
-- Joseph Addison
- Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee
- He who will not economize will have to agonize.
-- Confucius
- Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
-- Plutarch
- A penny saved is two pence clear,
A pin a day's a groat a year.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the
-- Thomas Jefferson
- Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.
-- Samuel Johnson
- The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength.
-- Thomas Fowell Buxton
- Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest.
-- William Shakespeare
- Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- The market...puts an almost irresistible pressure on every activity to justify itself in the only terms it recognizes: to become a business proposition, to pay its own way, to show black ink on the bottom line. It turns news into entertainment, schol
-- Christopher Lasch (The Revolt of the Elites, 1995)
- If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Education
- He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
-- Victor Hugo
- There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
-- Will Rogers
- If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
-- James Madison
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-- Henry Brooks Adams
- Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
-- Henry Peter Brougham
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
-- Chinese Proverb
- Only the educated are free.
-- Epictetus
- Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
-- Ambrose Bierce
- Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
-- Martin H. Fischer
- Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
-- Edward Everett
- Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
-- Francis Keppel
- The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
-- Wendell Phillips
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
-- Aristotle
- Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
-- Sam Houston
- My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
-- Anatole France
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain
- Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
-- Horace Mann
- Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
- You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
-- John Dewey
- To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
- Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde
- Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
-- Will Durant
- Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.
-- Frank Crane
- There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The world is run by C students.
-- Anon.
- No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
-- Lee Rudolph
Efficiency
- We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.
-- Woodrow Wilson
- Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
- In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare.
-- Gifford Pinchot
- A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
-- Arnold Bennett
- Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
- It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
-- Walter Scott
- There is nothing so useless as doing effeciently that which should not be done at all.
Anon.
Effort
- Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.
-- Anonymous
- If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
-- Lucille Ball
- Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
-- James A. Garfield
- Many a man never fails because he never tries.
-- Norman MacEwan
- The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
-- Anthony Robbins
- It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
- Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
- There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
- The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.
-- Robert A. Taft
- It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?
-- Henry David Thoreau
- When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
-- Shunryu Suzuka
- In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Emotion
- It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.
--Mark Twain
- By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.
-- Joseph Collins
- Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
--John Sterling
- The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
--George Santayana
- Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
--Max Eastman
- Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
--Dogen
Enemy
- You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
-- Ed Howe
- The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
-- Josh Billings
- In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
-- Anne Sophie Swetchine
- One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.
-- Frank B. Shutts
- Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
-- Petrarch
- Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
-- Lord Halifax
- When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
-- Ambrose Bierce
- There is no little enemy.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
-- Oscar Wilde
- An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- Man is his own worst enemy.
-- Cicero
- A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies.
-- Don Piatt
- Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
-- Antisthenes
- We have met the enemy and he is us.
-- Walt Kelly
- If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
-- Elbert Hubbard
- Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
-- Gene Fowler
- Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.
-- Sydney Harris
- To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself.
-- Ivan Turgenev
- I wish my deadly foe no worse,
Than want of friends, and empty purse.
-- Nicholas Breton
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