Quotes 181 till 200 of 1159.
-
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
-
Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
-
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
-
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
-
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
-
Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
-
Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
-
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
-
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
-
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.
-
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
-
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
-
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
-
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
-
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
-
Death is the cure for all diseases.
-
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
-
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
All thomas famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 10)
