Quotes
Quotes about End
Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]
Still ending, and beginning still.
We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. [Fr., On commence par etre dupe, On finit par etre fripon.]
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down. That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons. I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus.
Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man that you can paint the air.
Trials, temptations, disappointmentsâ all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence.
Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.
As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Women know The way to rear up children (to be just); They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles.
When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed, The little one gather around me, To bid me good-night and be kissed; On, the little white arms that encircle My neck in their tender embrace Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven, Shedding sunshine of love on my face.
If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child.
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
