Quotes
Quotes - Hall
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.
His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art.
He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.
Call things by their right names.... Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightstick like a posthole digger. (in reference to the death by ruptured kidney and other factors after the clubbing of Nathaniel Jones by 2 Cincinnati policemen).
Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.
Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, to number not his years but his days. [And so, those] that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.
. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the bosome of the sea, that never was seene nor never shall bee.
He is great enough that is his own master.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Moderation is the secret of survival.
