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Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
THOMAS MALORY

I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in...
DAVID EDDINGS

Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pre...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT

in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England:
Fortune made his sword, By which ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l...
DEYTH BANGER

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way...
LADY GAGA

You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves.
PHIL LESTER

It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH

Is this the end of all the endings?
My broken bones are mending
With all these nights we'r...
TAYLOR SWIFT

I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember...
ALLY CONDIE

Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a...
NAJWA ZEBIAN

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
AESCHYLUS

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN

Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, li...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.
TERRY GOODKIND -ingen Penge mere og kan ikke arbejde, blaut, Far, udsuget, Fan danse mig.
KNUT HAMSUN When drugs itself are a treatment, what further treatment do you want.
APURVA GAGLANI She recalled how Pauline had fallen off a bus one night, late, went skidding into Creedmoor. In a no...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People wer...
SARAH DESSEN

Coraline nunca había comprendido qué motivo había llevado a alguien a pintar un cuenco con frutas...
NEIL GAIMAN I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Midd...
DAVID EDDINGS

That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON Ah Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have betrayed me; for never shall my court be amended by you, but ye will ne...
THOMAS MALORY We finally played the way we are capable of playing. Let's hope this continues after a ride down to ...
DIANE CASEY

What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. ...
RICHARD WATSON GILDER And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
BIBLE

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged Kin...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged Kin...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid...
JOHN MILTON Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I h...
STEPHEN LEVINE Every girl’s journey is a book of unknowns Sometimes they destroys this society Sometimes they rec...
HARIKRISHNA PANIGRAHI

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Under this stone, reader, survey / Dead Sir John Vanbrugh's house of clay. / Lie heavy on him, Earth...
ABEL EVANS

Ses’ach L’ru!” Came the slightly muffled chorus. This was Ruminarii for ‘Hail the Captain.�...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

They're really into it, laughing and teasing each other, and I am looking at Pam and thinking once a...
JAMES HOWE The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King...
KING FAROUK OF EGYPT The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left - the King of England, the Kin...
KING FAROUK OF EGYPT

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. -King John. Act v. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
BIBLE It’s this or nothing at all.
R.J. GROVES Nathan "N.R." Gaddis did not say ::

2109 fellow Goodreaders [can’t be wrong] gave [K...
NATHAN "N.R." GADDIS Don't be a drag.
Just be a queen.
LADY GAGA I am not born with wisdom, i gained it treading in this world!! I don't wise all of a sudden, it's l...
FAISAL KHAN I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked ...
SARAH DESSEN I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might...
STEPHENIE MEYER COMPLETELY.
Utterly.
Frozen.
My eyes drop to the table in front of me when she fin...
COLLEEN HOOVER You want to know my sweet?" I ask her.

She nods.

I kiss her on the forehead. "...
COLLEEN HOOVER Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?

Dexter: ...
SARAH DESSEN The power to feed properly every day for life is in the saying "Give us this day our daily bread", f...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO The saying "Give us this day our daily bread." simply means every day my beliefs must cater for my n...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w...
KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE The saying,give us this day our daily bread means,seek today's good for today only,any excess means ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The saying "Give us this day our daily bread",simply means,yesterday is gone,you can't bring it back...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Yes, yes I blocked porn but this didn't stopped me from the real desire to watch videos... Still som...
DEYTH BANGER That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing...
SARAH DESSEN And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in...
SARAH DESSEN Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction
WILLIAM BLAKE The way isn't a circle and never can't be a circle unless you repeat the same after the same. Is it ...
DEYTH BANGER Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, ...
SARAH DESSEN Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothi...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your pi...
MAX LUCADO I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.
TERRY GOODKIND Fate does not seek our consent.
TERRY GOODKIND It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the l...
WILLIAM ALEXANDER This is the old St. John's Episcopal Church. It's one of the three that the diocese closed back in t...
JEANNE BOLLENDORF King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... sett...
JOAN OF ARC Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the e...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL This world has need of song and sword.
PATRICIA BRIGGS I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound ...
LADY GAGA Thousands of individuals unknowingly contribute to the creation of our lives. Over the years, these ...
KRISTIN S. KAUFMAN Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.
NIKKI SIXX Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY 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 For love that time was not as love is nowadays.
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 This is a stepping stone of the big picture.
AARON BADDELEY Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good
death is better than a poor one.
MICHAEL MOORCOCK He that can work is born to be king of something.
THOMAS CARLYLE Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity. The August-born without this stone 'Ti...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and o...
ELIZABETH I I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman. But I have the heart and stomach of a king - ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH When I was a teenager, what I most wanted to read were fantasy novels. Not Tolkien and Malory, but s...
ELIOT SCHREFER England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary sp...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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