Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 13894.
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A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
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A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
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A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
Source: Speech at a summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Istanbul, Turkey, as quoted in BBC World Service (19 November 1999) -
A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 16 -
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
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