Quotes
Quotes about End
Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er, Each smooth as those that mutually deceive, And for their falsehood each despising each.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart.
The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe.
Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
It is grievous to be caught. [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled "wrong.".
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!
And you, enchantment, Worthy enough a herdsman--yea, him too, That makes himself, but for our honor therein, Unworthy thee-if ever henceforth thou These rural latches to his entrance open, Or hoop his body more with thy embraces, I will devise a death as cruel for thee As thou art tender to't.
The end of culture is right living.
