Wisdom Quotes — page 470

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

I keep saying, Shakspeare, Shakspeare, you are as obscure as life is.

Cathedral High Mass. Clouds of incense and one of Mozart's sublimest masses by an orchestra before which San Carlo might grow pale. The effect inconceivably grand. The host raised, and I flung myself on the ground.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

560. All things are difficult, before they are easy.

Marry your sonne when you will, your daughter when you can.

Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

I was na fou, but just had plenty.

led Omar to his theory of a general subsidence. But

The written law is binding, but the unwritten law is much more so. You may break the written law at a pinch and on the sly if you can, but the unwritten law — which often comprises the written — must not be broken. Not being written, it is …

without altering the aesthetic forms; and in all the cupolas built after

She is not a subject.

What is still more wonderful with respect to this principle of combination, all the elementary substances observe certain mathematical proportions in their unions. It is hence supposed that matter is composed of

shrinks from facing the dangers of the interior

I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.

Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays, For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Regions Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they.

And backward and forward he switched his long tail As a gentleman switches his cane.

You may all go to pot.

For my embalming, sweetest, there will be No spices wanting when I'm laid by thee.