L Alphabet Quotes

LABOUR

♠ I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would have made them with mouths only and hands; and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and no eating, He would have made them with hands only and no mouths – Abraham Lincoln

♠ Labour conquers all things –Homer

♠ Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things – Adam Smith

LADY

♠ A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentle man – Russell Lynes

LAUNGUAGE

♠ The individual’s whole experience is built upon the plan pf his language – Anonymous

♠ Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God - Anonymous

LAUGHTER

♠ He laughs best who laughs last – Old English Proverb

♠ Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter – Greville

♠ Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone, For the sad old earth must borrow is mirth, But has trouble enough of its own – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

♠ Our sincerest laughter,With some pain is fraught – Shelley

LAW

♠ Where law ends, there tyranny begins – William Pitt

♠ Law grid the poor, and rich men rules the law – Goldsmith

♠ Laws are dumb in the midst of the arms – Cicero

♠ Ignorance of the law excuses no man: not that all men know the law, but because its an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him – John Selden

LEARNING

♠ A little learning is a dangerous thing – Pope

♠ Men learn while they teach – Senneca

♠ The three foundations of learning: Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much – Catherall

♠ Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one –Chesterfield

♠ Abandon learning, and you will be free from trouble and distress – Lao-Tse

LEADING

♠ Very often he that his money lends, Loses both his gold and his friends – C.H. Spurgeon

♠ He who leads without interest is more worthy than he who gives charity, and he who invents money in the business of a poor man is the most worthy od all – Talmud

LIAR

♠ This is the punishment of a liar: He is not believed even when he speaks the truth – Babylonian

LIBERTY

♠ The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants – Bertrand Barere

♠ What light is to the eyes, what air is to the lungs, what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man – R.G. Ingersoll

♠ Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty – Wendell Phillips

♠ Liberty is a boisterous sea; Timid men prefer the calm of despotism –Thomas Jefferson

♠ Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it – George Bernad Shaw

♠ The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time – Thomas Jefferson

♠ Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of the rapid growth – George Washington

LIBRARY

♠ The true University of these days is a collection of Books – Carlyle

LIE

♠ I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid - John Gotti

LIFE

♠ Life is real! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal - Longfellow

♠ Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem – Longfellow

♠ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: It is a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing –Shakespeare

♠ We are such stuff, As dreams are made on and our little life, Is rounded with a sleep – Shakespeare

♠ Life like a drone of many coloured glass , Strains the white radiance of Eternity – Shelley

♠ Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think – La Bruyere

♠ A simple life is its own reward – George Santayana

♠ A man’s is interesting primarily when he has failed-I well know.For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself – Georges Clemenceau

♠ As for man his days are like grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth.The wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more – The Old Testament

♠ Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers – Hans Christian Anderson

♠ Life is a matter about which we are lost if we reason either too much or too little. – Samuel Butler

♠ The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that it is everything. – Anatole France

♠ Your daily life is your temple and your religion. – Khalil Gibran 

♠ You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist – Neale Donald Walsch

LOVE

♠ There are many people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love spoken of. – La Rochefoucauld

♠ But love is blind, and lovers cannot see .The pretty follies that they themselves commit. – Shakespeare

♠ To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live – Tolstoy

♠ Man’s love is of man’s life thing apart, ‘Tis woman’s whole existence. – Byron

♠ First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time. – Honore. De Bulzac

♠ Love is like measles; you can get it only once, and the later in life it occurs the tougher it gets. – Josh Billings

♠ The real value of love is the increased general vitality it produces. – Paul Valery

♠ O, my love is like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June. O, my love is like the melodie, That’s sweetly play’d in tune. – Burns

LUCK

♠ Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. – Arabian Proverb

LYING

♠ He who is not strong in memory should not meddle with lying. – Montaigne

♠ Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some senses to lie well – Samuel Butler

♠ He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar. – Friedrica Nietzsche