Best may & this-world Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.”

World May Children Strong White Forget This World Luck Noble Hungry Teeth Chiefs Never Forget Good Luck White Teeth

Book:Jungle Book: Illustrated

Source: Jungle Book: Illustrated

“There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.”

World Wells May Done This World Calling Excuse Well Done Often Is

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of your body as you age, by the all-encompassing death that swallows up everything and everyone in this world.”

World May Body Age Pain Suffering This World Tomorrow Your Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?”

Men World May Space This World Honor Sells Fingers Trash Robbers Bribe Bribery

Book:The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family

Source: The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family

“Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.”

World Looks May Play Use Dream Lasts Found Stars Dangerous This World Moon Wings Delight Shade Leafs Moths Fly Away Dazzle

Book:Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems

Source: Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems

“There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.”

Ifs Men World Heart May Soul Action This World Color Standing Determine Recognition Good Man Creeds Nationality Heart And Soul Bad Man

Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.”

World May Truth Religion Faith This World Personal Development Moral Growth

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world”

People Knows World Way Needs Humans May Seems Differences Human Beings Greater This World Equal Importance Cells

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.”