Global Language and World Culture
World Quotations (Part 1)

World Quotations (Part 1)

World quotes and aphorisms
World quotes and aphorisms

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston Churchill

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Mark Twain

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Confucius

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Muhammad Ali

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
Fred A. Allen

The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
Preston Bradley

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
Quincy Jones

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Earl Nightingale

The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.
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