History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste...
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one...
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good...
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Libraries are not made, they grow
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one pla...
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL That great dust-heap called 'history'.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL [Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL It is the Mass the matters.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste...
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Libraries are not made, they grow.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
AUGUSTINE The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page.
AUGUSTINE Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Custom is second nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The verdict of the world is conclusive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He who labours, prays.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I alr...
SAINT AUGUSTINE I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it...
SAINT AUGUSTINE No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
SAINT AUGUSTINE There is no possible source of evil except good.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not po...
SAINT AUGUSTINE A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Hear the other side.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h...
SAINT AUGUSTINE To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to...
SAINT AUGUSTINE God is best known in not knowing him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE To seek the highest good is to live well.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in e...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other...
SAINT AUGUSTINE He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scatt...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The purpose of all wars, is peace.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Love, and do what you like.
SAINT AUGUSTINE God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE This world's a bubble.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospe...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t...
NORMAN AUGUSTINE It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES AUGUSTINE One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down
NORMAN AUGUSTINE The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
ST. AUGUSTINE It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES AUGUSTINE Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust.
ST. AUGUSTINE The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
ST. AUGUSTINE God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p...
ST. AUGUSTINE Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
SAINT AUGUSTINE I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so
SAINT AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbou...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Unless you believe, you will not understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The argument is at an end.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Patience is the companion of wisdom.
SAINT AUGUSTINE What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The greatest evil is physical pain.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
SAINT AUGUSTINE God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
SAINT AUGUSTINE People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long cou...
AUGUSTINE SAINT You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.
AUGUSTINE SAINT You can't go down 1-2-3 in two innings in a game like that. You can't after spending the past two da...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ I don't know what to expect. I would just like us to go out there and play hard. We have some good t...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ Carl can play anywhere because he is so versatile. John has done a good job of showing me that he wa...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ I am not satisfied with going from blowout losses to just losses. We are getting better as a team, b...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ I think the team is still hung up on what happened in Santa Rosa.
AUGUSTINE RUIZ I think it was one and fifteen?
AUGUSTINE RUIZ The kid's got a rocket for an arm. He's played in the outfield, but he wanted to try shortstop, and ...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ They will be our horses for us on the mound. They are the only returning players that have any exper...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ Why do you object to war? Surely not, because men, who eventually die anyway, are killed in war? St
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO He was at least seven yards offside.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN It's back to the drawing board and planning for the future.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN We want to compensate for missing the World Cup. We have paid back Tunisia, and we want to do the sa...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN We have the ingredients to make up for the last three or four Nations Cups where we have not won the...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN I want to assure you that we'll work as a team and make sure we secure the three points in the remai...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN We paid for underrating Zimbabwe and Angola. We now have the chance to prove ourselves again.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN He's still got all the qualities and I try to bring him on for at least one hour.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN We could have been 3-0 down at halftime and in the second half as well.
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN We want to compensate for missing out on the World Cup and also for not winning the Nations Cup for ...
AUGUSTINE EGUAVOEN I am waiting for further instructions from the coaches but we shall see how it will go.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE I don't know how to describe myself, I'm so happy.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE I was just relaxing because the top athletes who should have made the race faster were not there.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE I've beaten him once and he's beaten me once, he's a very good runner.
AUGUSTINE CHOGE I am ready to double in Commonwealth Games and world cross-country championships if given the chance...
AUGUSTINE CHOGE To Carthage I came, where there sang all around my ears a cauldron of unholy loves.
SAINT AUGUSTINE We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He that is jealous is not in love.
SAINT AUGUSTINE I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is ha...
SAINT AUGUSTINE God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.
ST. AUGUSTINE The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob...
ST. AUGUSTINE God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should s...
ST. AUGUSTINE Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
ST. AUGUSTINE Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ...
ST. AUGUSTINE God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin...
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The truth is neither mi...
ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ...
ST. AUGUSTINE What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which...
ST. AUGUSTINE Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ...
ST. AUGUSTINE We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here...
JAMES AUGUSTINE It could have been broken, but luckily it turned out to only be a sprain. I got the boot off and I'v...
JAMES AUGUSTINE Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important.
JAMES AUGUSTINE They have four, five, six pro prospects on their team. They'll have a lottery pick coming off their ...
JAMES AUGUSTINE You have to feel proud of your teammates for coming back and playing. At Iowa we just gave up. Tonig...
JAMES AUGUSTINE Last year, there was a little more pressure. We're more of an underdog. We want to be special and ge...
JAMES AUGUSTINE They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. W...
JAMES AUGUSTINE Someone told me I had five assists at halftime and I just laughed. It's nice, but the win is more im...
JAMES AUGUSTINE Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the gu...
JAMES AUGUSTINE Against Michigan State, we just played lackadaisical. Here, it's a different setting. You hit one sh...
JAMES AUGUSTINE It really has no bearing on any decisions. Coaching and playing is all we can do.
JOE AUGUSTINE This is not one person's award. This is a reflection of all the coaches, management and players who ...
JOE AUGUSTINE Our support was great this season. And we hope it continues next year when we raise our championship...
JOE AUGUSTINE I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before an...
JOE AUGUSTINE We're playing okay but we haven't put 60 minutes together. We're inconsistent and we're not putting ...
JOE AUGUSTINE Things have been great this season. We've had a lot of support and we hope to see more people here n...
JOE AUGUSTINE As a team, we saw January as a new slate. We've had a lot of injuries. Looking back to the beginning...
JOE AUGUSTINE It seems the storm is not going to be as strong as we feared and that was enough to take some of the...
JOHN AUGUSTINE Many market observers are coming out with the belief that the market will break upward after the ele...
JOHN AUGUSTINE Earnings are driving the testing of the top end for the S&P 500, but geopolitical issues are here to...
JOHN AUGUSTINE This may be one of those years in the stock market where you'll want to sell on Memorial Day and go ...
JOHN AUGUSTINE Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leav...
JOHN AUGUSTINE Big institutions are holding back their own capital. They're looking for an upside catalyst for stoc...
JOHN AUGUSTINE There are fears that any supply disruptions could disturb oil markets and such concerns are holding ...
JOHN AUGUSTINE Markets are now focused squarely on inflation. Will it follow the great growth we've seen and force ...
JOHN AUGUSTINE We could be into mid-July until we see the Dow break that record. It may take another round of earni...
JOHN AUGUSTINE Markets are now focused squarely on inflation, ... Will it follow the great growth we've seen and fo...
JOHN AUGUSTINE The interim results are positive but may fall short of investor expectations.
MARK AUGUSTINE We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen pr...
MARK AUGUSTINE Vertex shares are once again challenging our price target and with the stock up 250% over the past y...
MARK AUGUSTINE