Quotes
Quotes about End
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.
Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on.
When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, the blow with an agreement.
Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave them to bleach out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,-- But we forget not, never can forget.
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last.
The offender never pardons.
The offender never forgives.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. -Madame Dorothée Deluzy.
A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
My angel,--his name is Freedom,-- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead.
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.
