Wisdom Quotes — page 15

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Being alive is the Magic—being strong is the Magic.

I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource.

I'd be a butterfly born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking

He who has no mind to trade with the devil, should be so wise as to keep away from his shop.

There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies blow; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow: There cherries grow which none may buy Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

We thank thee for the wisdom of the fathers in the formation of this government, and for the assistance thou didst render them in arriving at the great principles relating to the equality of man. We thank thee for the glorious declaration.

Then rose up the horror which would make civilized man shun justice like a plague if he had not the needy to serve him as hangmen for wages.

How the learned fool would wonder Were he now to see his blunder, When he put his reason under The control of worldly Pride.

You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it …

No man can lose what he never had.

The home life of the English seems to me to be about as perfect as anything can be. Everything moves like clockwork.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

Never was there a man of deep piety, who has not been brought into extremities — who has not been put into fire — who has been taught to say, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him."

Thy name is Hasty-Pudding! thus our sires Were wont to greet thee fuming from the fires.

I know the title of a King is a glorious title, but assure yourself that the shining glory of princely authority hath not so dazzled the eyes of our understanding, but that we well know and remember that we also are to yield an account of …

They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.

We can drink till all look blue.

says he should not, about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not do that which he thinks and says and does.

If I cared for influence—which means, for the most part, making people do one's will, without knowing it—my first step toward it would be to be called, in common parlance, “slow but sure.”