Wisdom Quotes — page 12

quickly led me to the use of springs, instead of gravity

I breathed a song into the air; That little song of beauty rare Is flying still, for all I know, Around the world by Radio.

Appetite is better than surfeit.

this principle seems to be inconsistent with... admitting... an infinitely little quantity or difference, which, added to itself any number of times, is never supposed to become equal to any finite quantity whatsoever.

Maitreya Buddha (Sk.). The same as the Kalki Avatar of Vishnu (the “White Horse” Avatar), and of Sosiosh and other Messiahs...

is one of the characteristics of a Practical Man

Procreare jucundum, sed parturire molestum ["to beget is pleasant, but to give birth is painful"]

It is an historical fact that the British Navy stubbornly resists change.

We are a wretched family, and ought to be exterminated.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John, and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

Sir Robert Walpole used to say, that it was fortunate so few men could be prime ministers, as it was best that few should thoroughly know the shocking wickedness of mankind. I never heard him say, that all men have their prices; and I …

there are more things twixt the vermiform appendix and nirvana than are dreamt of in thy philosophy horatio

I did not...regard anything except my own letters and official papers as deciding policy.

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery, never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of …

They too, like so much that to the common eye seems solid, may melt into air, into thin air.

No deeply-rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse argument. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

It is the duty of every man, so far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Un homme qui rit, said the duke, ne sera jamais dangereux.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

I do not mean to say that the Court could not give leave to amend, but I cannot conceive that the Court would listen to an application for leave to amend after the trial. That could not have been intended: it would be opposed to all …