For love that time was not as love is nowadays.
Sir Thomas Malory
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DAVID EDDINGS Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY Nowadays Love Is A I Want Not I Need
EZEKIEL O Earlier men craved for love from women, nowadays they ask everything except love!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
P.G. WODEHOUSE Love is not valuable more than friendship. No sir. Love is always in need of taking. Friendship inde...
WOHI PURANA I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Midd...
DAVID EDDINGS What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can conf...
JOHANNA LINDSEY Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in...
SAMUEL JOHNSON They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It'...
J.D. SALINGER It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.
DANIEL WEBSTER But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir La...
PATRICK STEWART Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
HELEN ROWLAND Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.
JACK LONDON Time waits for no man" but no man dares not wait for "his Time."
"Love is patient" but Time is ...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Nowadays, the concept of love is greatly trampled because there is too much permissibility.
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for ea...
DAVID SCOTT An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds,...
HAROLD LOKES Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
SIR THOMAS MALORY Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.
SIR THOMAS MALORY What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?
SIR THOMAS MALORY And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
SIR THOMAS MALORY And anon there came in a dove at a window, and in her mouth there seemed a little censer of gold, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed!
SIR THOMAS MALORY Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
SIR THOMAS MALORY I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowaday...
ANSEL ELGORT I remember seeing the movie 'To Sir With Love' when I was a little girl.
CHAKA KHAN An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds,...
HAROLD LOUKES As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
COCO CHANEL There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time
COCO CHANEL Sir, if you are as powerful as I feel that you are, and as inclined toward us as you seem to be, end...
GEORGE SAUNDERS It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
VOLTAIRE The answer for love is time. If there is a real love, time will show it.
AILANY ICASSATTI Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time.
Not as though we...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the ex...
M. SCOTT PECK I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to ...
T. SCOTT MCLEOD The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and i...
GERMAINE GREER Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult. It shou...
ERICH FROMM Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ''Patriotism'' is its cult. It ...
ERICH FROMM I love hats and winter is the perfect time for them. I love winter time fashion.
REBECCA FERGUSON Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDE He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her.
But was love t...
GUILLAUME MUSSO Love is not for only One Day, Every Day is Valentine Day and may be actual Valentine day is not a da...
LOVE QUOTES FOR HER Love that is not madness is not love.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Love that is not madness is not love.
PEDRO CALDERóN DE LA BARCA If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and...
DAVE EGGERS Woman's love is writ in water,
Woman's faith is traced in sand.
- Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) ...
SIR ROBERT AYTOUN (AYTON) OF KINCALDIE And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUST If love is not for both, it is not love
-Inna
INNA SERGAEVNA KARPENKOVA Love is transcendent. It knows not of time nor space. It exist between 'us' for 'us.' Love and be lo...
TRUTH DEVOUR Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth...
P.C. CAST «Sarò nel programma di protezione testimoni,» disse Jack.
«Avrò un nome diverso, non so d...
JANE SEVILLE Riprendo a correre, a tutta velocità. Non ho più paura di nulla. Non ho più paura di nessuno. Non...
MAKOTO SHINKAI Love is too weak a word for what I feel. I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F’s...
~RAM CHANDER(RC) Le etichette possono essere riduttive. A volte bisogna smettere di pensare a genere e orientamento e...
JAY NORTHCOTE To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind i...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so muc...
RAM DASS For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whol...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to l...
DAVE EGGERS Thomas groaned at how invisible he'd become. "I love how you guys are just talking about me like i'm...
JAMES DASHNER The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Fe...
VICTOR HUGO Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commi...
SEAMUS DEVER There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves ...
COCO CHANEL There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves ...
COCO CHANEL Your salary is not love and your word is not love. Your clothes are not love and holding hands is no...
PLEASEFINDTHIS She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave...
MERVYN PEAKE Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)
JEANIENE FROST To fall in love for any reason does cause fires of emotion. When we are in love, we ride on a positi...
NANDHIJI Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty da...
WOODY ALLEN Love ,love, love, as simple as that.
KēVENS (Malory, unhopeful: "I don't suppose you have any tea?" Jesse: "DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING?...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a...
DAVE EGGERS It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems—he would give his hawk to any man that aske...
TED HUGHES Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee
Which bore my Love away
I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave,
...
ROBERT HERRICK You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as...
OLIVER PLATT I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that,...
ALLY CONDIE Oh, tell me whence Love cometh!
Love comes uncall'd, unsent.
Oh, tell me where Love goeth!
...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR It is not impossible to live in love, with love, for love and then become love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The currency of life is not money but time and love. Remember time is finite, but you are blessed wi...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
HERMAN HESSE Any time not spent on love is wasted.
TORQUATO TASSO I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Boll...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Treasure the ones you love. Tomorrow is not promised. Cherish the time you have with the people who ...
AKIROQ BROST Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a ...
STEVIE WONDER Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as...
STEVIE WONDER Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Neighbor… was that the word for "whoring tramp" nowadays?
GENA SHOWALTER Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. -As You Like It. Ac...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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SIR THOMAS TREVES Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to
engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain ...
SIR THOMAS WYATT Never despair, keep pushing on!
SIR THOMAS LIPTON Patience, though I have not
The thing that I require,
I must of force, God wot,
Forbear my...
SIR THOMAS WYATT Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the trues...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Life is pure flame.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Chari...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pro...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to depriv...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Death is the cure for all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE And first Satan's endeavours have ever been, and they cease not yet to instill a belief in the minde...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effec...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping m...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is no road or ready way to virtue.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't ...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Ma...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is we that are blind, not fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them...
SIR THOMAS OVERBORE There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious
ancestors is like a potato,--the only ...
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost
lost that built it.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men
above ourselves; but to confirm and es...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE He that unburied lies wants not his hearse,
For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE God is like a skilful Geometrician.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up
empty cantons, and unnecessary sp...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is
not long. The created world is b...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent.
[Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table amon...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are
spoken under the rose.
- Sir Th...
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SIR THOMAS BROWNE Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: I desire to exercise my faith in the...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he
hid himself among women.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note
which Cupid strikes, far sweeter th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the
grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as
trophies unto the enemies of truth.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his pr...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of
faces there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever
hath no beginning may be confident o...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel
sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Women do most delight in revenge.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own
executioner.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste
portion of the earth as is necessary for...
SIR THOMAS MORE For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble;
and whoso doth us a good tourne we...
SIR THOMAS MORE To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray
for, and whose duration we cannot ho...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was
unreasonably committed to the ground, i...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Fesaunt excedeth all fowles in sweetnesse and holsomnesse, and is
equall to capon in nourishynge.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
SIR THOMAS MORE Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homag...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the ...
SIR THOMAS MORE " i am a man, not a duck, llama, or fish, once a man, always a man"
SIR STUART THOMAS A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
SIR THOMAS MORE They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so m...
SIR THOMAS MORE This hath not offended the king.
SIR THOMAS MORE Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should b...
SIR THOMAS MORE Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known...
SIR THOMAS MORE Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he
may lawfully take.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT Then on the grounde
Togyder rounde
With manye a sadde stroke,
They roll and rumble,
...
SIR THOMAS MORE [The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to
appear healthy, although his end ...
SIR THOMAS ROE Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
SIR THOMAS WYATT Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Continuing a series on God and the human condition: If we...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Sleep is a death, O make me try,
By sleeping, what it is to die:
And as gently lay my head
...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all yo...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with
pity: and when winter evenings fall e...
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.
SIR THOMAS MORE With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insigni...
SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON 'Tis a little thing
To give a cup of water; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fe...
SIR THOMAS NOON TALFOURD (TALFORD) Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego li...
SIR WILLIAM There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishe...
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world command...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The frivolous work of polished idleness.
- Sir James Mackintosh,
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
SIR HENRY WOTTON The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
SIR MAX BEERBOHM Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while
the iron is hot.
SIR EDWARD HOBY All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in
whatever hands it is placed.
SIR WILLIAM JONES When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
SIR RICHARD STEELE The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It
was verily prettily said that we may...
SIR RICHARD STEELE In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin be...
SIR SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtu...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
SIR RONALD MASON Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
SIR HUGH WALPOLE If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to tho...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
SIR HENEAGE OGILVIE Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profe...
SIR THEODORE MARTIN A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
SIR RICHARD STEELE That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of rec...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE