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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."
"Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. - William Shakespeare
"Family & Public Service", a pledge at 21 carried to 90: 69 years' Nobility, Wisdom & Compassion. Thank you, Queen of Grace!
Inset: In 1940, Princess Elizabeth, 14, featured in a radio programme called Children's Hour. She sent her best wishes to the children who had been evacuated from Britain to America, Canada and elsewhere as Britain was suffering the worst of the Blitz during World War Two.
Bottom: Elizabeth became a Girl Guide in 1937, her sister, Princess Margaret enrolled as a Brownie and their mother became the Patron of the Girl Guides. During WWii, Elizabeth did her part to boost public morale.
The Queen with her great-grandchildren and youngest grandchildren. From left: James, Viscount Severn; Lady Louise Windsor; Mia Tindall (holding the Queen's handbag); Princess Charlotte; Savannah Phillips; Prince George and Isla Phillips.
Top: April 2016 - as the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh walked the short distance from Windsor Castle, a spontaneous rendition of Happy Birthday rang out.
Bottom: Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Bedaling Pass, on the Great Wall of China, on the third day of their state visit to the country. No British monarch had ever travelled to mainland China, let alone walked the Great Wall so the Queen's trip in October 1986 made history.
"The highest of distinctions is service to others." "Your work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth."
"The highest of distinctions is service to others. "
- King George VI
"Let us join in thanking Almighty God that war has ended throughout the world."
- King George VI
"Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare."
- Elizabeth the Queen Mother
"Your work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth."
- Elizabeth the Queen Mother
"How small and selfish is sorrow. But it bangs one about until one is senseless."
- Elizabeth the Queen Mother (in letter to Edith Sitwell, shortly after the death of George VI)
"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in." - Aesop
"A prudent question is one half of wisdom."
- Francis Bacon Sr. (English Philosopher)
"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
- Aesop (Ancient Greek fabulist)
"No better relation than a prudent and faithful Friend."
- Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor)
Happy 2016! *Book of L* iii - Quotable Wit & Wisdom Collection 5 (new release, Dec 2015)
*NEW release December 2015*
*Book of L* iii
- Quotable Wit and Wisdom Collection 5
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Latin: Lumen Ad Viam.
Light would lead life out of darkness into lasting love.
To Light, is our dedication ~
3 lit candles,
3 Books of L,
each consisting of 3 sections:
1) L in Quotation
2) L in Latin Motto
3) L in Poem