Quotes
Quotes about Pen
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu.]
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,-- 'Tis said thy blithesome song was hushed While Christ toiled up Mount Calvary, Bowed 'neath the sins of all mankind; And humbled to the very dust By the vile cross, while viler men Mocked with a crown of thorns the Just. Pierced by our sorrows, and weighed down By our transgressions,--faint and weak, Crushed by an angry Judge's frown, And agonies no word can speak,-- 'Twas then, dear bird, the legend says That thou, from out His crown, didst tear The thorns, to lighten the distress And ease the pain that he must bear, While pendant from thy tiny beak The gory points thy bosom pressed, And crimsoned with thy Saviour's blood The sober brownness of thy breast! Since which proud hour for thee and thine. As an especial sign of grace God pours like sacramental wine Red signs of favor o'er thy race!
St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work! God bless the Regent, and the Duke of York.
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another. [Lat., Etiam quae sibi quisque timebat Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere.]
Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum; Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo; Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit. . . . . Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu, Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
