Quotes
Quotes about End
I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives. -B. C. Forbes.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa.
The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.
But thou, O daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Not only is that an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. [Lat., Nam non solum scire aliquid, artis est, sed quaedam ars etiam docendi.]
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things that he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pendant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.
We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Applaud friends, the comedy is over.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the same, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sureâthat is all that agnosticism means.
