Quotations for essays

My aim in life
“The ambition, if reached or not, makes the great life” (Robert Browning)
“Not Failure but low aim is crime” “A teacher affects eternity” (Henry Adams)
“A teacher influences those who matter to the world” (James Hilton)
“Frame is the perfume of heroic deeds” (Socrates)
“A future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”
“You only live once …… but if you work it right once is enough”
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character”
“Ambition is not what man does, but what man would do”
“People pay for the doctor for his trouble, for his kindness, they still remain in his debt”
My first day at college
“My first impression of the first day at college are still fresh in my memory. It seems
impossible to erase those sweet memories”
“Colleges are the places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed”
“A new place and a new life with a new lifestyle”
“College life has its own colours, There is youth, spirit and desires all together”
A visit to a historical place
“In earth is full of God’s goodness” (Richard Ralston)
“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man” (P.B Shelly)
“When you see the world’s glory, it is how art has made it”
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God” (Sir T. Browne)
Life in a big city
“God made the country and man made the town”
“City is a place where you find everything except the love of nature”
“The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo” (Desmond Morris)
“When a city offers everything quick, it offers the death quick too” (Sue Gray)
“City life is millions of people being lonesome together” (Henry David)
“Lahore is declared as the most polluted city of the world”
Village life
“I would rather be first in a village than second in Rome” (Jwis Caesar)
“God made the country and mad made the town” (Cowper)
“The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. (African Proverb)
“If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village; if you would know, and known,
live in a city” (Charles called cotton)
“You reach at a village, and in this calm, environment, (you) start to hear echo” (Yank Naoh)
“A village is a hive of glass, where nothing observed passes” (Charles H. Supurgeon)
My Hobby
“A hobby a day keeps the dad rums away” (Phyllis McGinley)
“A hobby is a hard work you wouldn’t do for a living” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever, Its loveliness increases; it will never, pass into
nothingness” (John Keats)
“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one”
(Edna St. Vincent)
“I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find Sufficient
purpose for my day” (Robert Brawt)
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader” (Margaret Fuller)
“Hobby is an activity that you do for please when you are not working” (Oxford Dictionary)
Why I love Pakistan
“Such is the Patriot’s boost, where we room”
“As first, best country ever is, at home”
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country” (Nathan Hale)
“How beautiful is death, when earned by virtue, who would not be that youth? What pity
it that we can die but once to service our country” (Joseph Addison)
“You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosque or to your other
place of worship in the state of Pakistan” (Quaid-e-Azam 11Aug , 1947)
My last day at college
“Colleges are the places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed”
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky. Are best lived by the letting go to water”
(Revarol)
“Last day at college is a combination of relaxation and sadness”
“Short period of last day leaves long lasting memories”
“For every start, there is an end” (Proverb)
“College days are one of the finest days”
Women place in society
The Holy Quran says:
“Women have the equal rights in relaxation to their husbands”
“No nation can raise the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you”
“Give me good mothers and I will give you a good nation” (Napoleon)
Science
“Science is a key which unlocks for mankind the storehouse of nature”
“Science is a great asset of life with all its charms and horrors”
“Science is tool of social progress”
“Ours is a remarkable age of sciences”
“Science itself is a marvel and majesty”
“Science is a dreadful vampire”
Cricket Match
“Cricket is the king of all the games”
“The beginning of the game is the beginning of victory”
“Cricket is game of highest fame”
“To play game wisely, approaches victory timely”
“To play is good, to score runs is better but to win is best”
“The movement of the ball is the movement of spectator’s eyes”
Corruption
“Corruption is like a ball of snow, once its set rolling, it must increase”(Charles Claeb Colton)
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts … Perhaps the fear of the loss of the power”
(Steinbeck)
“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton)
“Power attracts the corruptible” (Frank Herbert)
“Corruption is a hard cane that beats hard on a nation with deaf gears”
“Public money is like a fish bone, it gets struck in the throat”
“Bribe - giver and Bribe - taker are both doomed for hell” (Al-Hadith)
Education for women
“You educate a man; you educate a man, your educate a woman, you educate a
generation” (Brigham Young)
“Education is better safeguard of liberty than a standing army” (Edward Everett)
“There is no Pillar of greater stability than a well-educated woman”
Road Accident
“Be alert, accident hurt” (Charles Lamb)
“Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety” (Australian traffic)
“Chance takers are accident makers” (Rick Allen)
“Know, safety no injury, no safety, know injury” (Horace)
“You gamble with safety, you bet your life” (Charles Dicken)
“Prepare and prevent, don’t prepare and repent” (A.A Milne)
Technical Education
“The goal of education is understanding the goal of training is performance”
“Technology is a gift of God after the gift of life, it is perhaps the greatest of God’s Gifts. It is
mother of civilization, arts, and sciences”
My hero in History
“No great man lives in man. The history of the world is but the biography of great men”
“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the
sheets of life for men to see by”
“History is a gramophone in which the voices of nations are preserved”
“Poet is a man speaking for men and has the capability to create poetry that he can share
with others”
“He dies …… Alas! How soon, he dies” (Johnson)