Quotes 9541 till 9560 of 10439.
-
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
-
When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
-
When a diplomat says yes, he means 'perhaps'; When he says perhaps, he means 'no'; When he says no, he is not a diplomat.
-
When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
Source: Arutz Sheva (17 April 2010) -
When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits - all without any directing intelligence at all.
-
When a man grows old, wisdom will not keep him alive.
-
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
-
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
-
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
-
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.
-
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
-
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
-
When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
-
When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.
-
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
-
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
-
When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
-
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
All not-so-fun famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 478)
