Quotations for 12th Class English Essays

AIMs

• The mere act of aiming at something big makes you big. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
• A noble aim is simply a noble deed.
• Early death is better than an aimless life.
• If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. (Albert Einstein)
• Ambition makes a man energetic and active.
• Man who has the ambition to be considered as the best among good men.
• A man or woman without ambition is a really unfortunate man.

VISIT

• Traveling at a young age is a part of education.
• What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still.

Science

• Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. (George Bernard Shaw)

Patriotism

• A passion from which springs the love for one's country willing to sacrifice for it.
• The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. (Thomas Paine)
• The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. (Thomas Campbell)
• Who is here so vile that he will not love his country? (Shakespeare)
• Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. (Thomas Jefferson)
• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. (Oscar Wilde)
• Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Guy de Maupassant)
• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. (Albert Einstein)
• Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. (Mark Twain)
• Patriotism is when the love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. (Charles de Gaulle)
• In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it. (Barack Obama)
• A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. (Edward Abbey)
• Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. (Mark twain)
• It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. (Aristotle)

College days

• The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. (William James)
• College life is a life of freedom. (Benazir Bhutto)
• If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing… You have a college degree.
• The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas – not ideas safe for students.
• The chief value in going to college is that it’s the only way to learn it really doesn’t matter. (George Edwin Howes)
• The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. (Albert Camus)
• College is a refuge from hasty judgment. (Robert Frost)
• If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got. (Warren Buffett)
• College is like a fountain of knowledge – and the students are there to drink. (Martian Luther King)
• Hard work never killed anyone, but I don’t want to be the first. (Emerson)
• Education is the best money-making ritual. (Kem Haccan)
• Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself. (Anonymous)
• Colleges don’t make fools, they only develop them. (Richard Steve)
• You are the pawns in the first year…you are ministers in the second year…You become the king of campus in the final year.

A Visit to a Historical Place

• Earth is full of Gods Goodness as Richard Ralston says;
  God has made this world so fair, although sins and death abound;
  How beautiful beyond compare, will paradise be found.

• A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
  Its loveliness increases; it will never
  Though nothing can bring back the hour;
  of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.
  (William Wordsworth)

• Beauty needs no ornaments.
• The best profit of the future is the past.
• History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• History is philosophy teaching by examples. (Thucydides)
• If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. (Pearl Buck)
• We are the prisoners of history.
• Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. (George Orwell)

CRICKET MATCH

• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy (Proverb)
• If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation (Bophop)
• Sport is a preserver of health. (Keats)
• Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else. (Vince Lombardi)
• Pain is only temporary but victory is forever. (Jeremy H.)
• If you can accept losing, you can't win. (Vince Lombardi)
• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. (Vince Lombardi)
• Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. (Charles O. Finley)
• Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. (Marcus Valerius Martial)
• A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. (Spanish Proverb)
• Health is wealth. (Proverb)

Courtesy

• Definition: The showing of politeness in one's attitude and behavior toward others.

• Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. (R.W.Emerson)
• He who grows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love. (Proverb)
• The Reward of courtesy is love. (Kem Haccan)
• The Man who is a master of courtesy is the master of everyone. (Lord Halifax)
• Courtesy is such a mark of a gentleman as courage. (Roosevelt)
• The grace of God is courtesy. (Hilaire Bellock)
• The best among ye is The one whose manners are the best. [ Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) ]
• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.
• A good deed is never lost Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. (Honore de Balzac)
• There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• All doors open to courtesy. (Thomas Fuller)

Hobby

• He who plants a garden plants happiness.
  Where flowers bloom so does hope.
  (Lady Bird Johnson)

• Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years. (Author Unknown)

• A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
  Its loveliness increases; it will never
  Though nothing can bring back the hour;
  of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower
  (William Wordsworth)

• Oh ! There are flowers all around;
  looking very nice with birds chirping song,
  Momentous, glorious the beautiful world;
  Such a pretty one that paradise be found.
• The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. (Gertrude Jekyll)
• A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. (Phyllis McGinley)
• All gardeners know better than other gardeners. (Chinese Proverb)
• When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves. (Ken Druse)
• Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription ... and with no limit on dosage. (Author unknown)

Quaid e Azam

• Jinnah is one of the most extraordinary men in history. (Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of India)
• The greatest man he ever met. (The Aga Khan)
• Failure is a word unknown to me. (Muhammad Ali Jinnah)
• Think 100 times before you make a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. (Muhammad Ali Jinnah)
• Sir Cowasjee Jehangir: "No one was able to move Jinnah from the path of truth."
• Gandhi: "I Believe no power can buy Mr. Jinnah."