16 Quotations by Sir John Lubbock
- 1. A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.
- 2. A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.
- 3. A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to ...
- 4. Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
- 5. Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more ...
- 6. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmas ...
- 7. In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t ...
- 8. Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is ...
- 9. Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when ...
- 10. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of w ...
- 11. Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
- 12. To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most ...
- 13. We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin ...
- 14. What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- 15. When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
- 16. Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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