Quotes
Quotes about End
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.
What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres, It pushed toward the intense significance Of all things, hungry for the Infinite? Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in--and To lend a hand.
That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat; descent and fall To give us is adverse.
There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth, The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best"; The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed. Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command," "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand; Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life," And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife"; Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be"; Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.
Docendo discimus Teach in order to learn
But they that are above Have ends in everything.
If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
God sendeth cold after clothes.
We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours.
God sends cold according to Cloathes. [God sends cold according to clothes.]
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but never strait.
