Quotes 8441 till 8460 of 8624.
-
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
-
Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.
-
Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
-
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme,
Do not repent, but regulate your passion:
Though love is reason, its excess is rage.
Give me, at least, your promise to reflect,
In cool, impartial solitude, and still.
No last decision till we meet again.Source: Alzira (1736) Act IV, Scene 1. -
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
-
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
-
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
-
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
-
[The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
-
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
-
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'.
-
'T is not enough to help the feeble up; but to support him after.
-
'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
-
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
-
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-
A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
All us—but famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 423)
