Quotes
Quotes about End
He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non videbatur.]
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinion is by a wager.
All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents.
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici, Occasionem de die.]
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Opposition is true friendship.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig." "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig." "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig, And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."
I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But (as you know me all) a plain blunt man That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
'Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
