Quotes
Quotes about End
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. [Lat., Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne iisdem de causis alii plectantur, alii ne appellentur quidem.]
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. [Lat., Diis proximus ille est Quem ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens Consilio punire potest.]
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.
Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. Hamlet
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!
When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.
The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.
We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?
How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn.
