Quotes
Quotes about Right
Men of England! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood.
Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie. Sweet boy, with thine, thy sister's sight improved: So shall she Venus be, thou God of Love. [Lat., Lumine Acon dextre,--capta est Leonilla sinistre, Et potis est forma vincere uterque dees: Blande puer, lumen quod habes concede sorori, Sic tu caecus Amor, sic erit illa Venus.]
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. [Lat., Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias, scio quam cum istis vera sentire.]
One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum hic dexrorsum abit, unus utrique Error, sed variis illudit partibus.]
When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right. [Fr., Quand tout le monte a tort, tout le monde a raison.]
The right to swing my fist ends where the other manâs nose begins.
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?
The future is as bright as the promises of God.
The reality of life is that your perceptionsâright or wrongâinfluence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.
There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. -Helen Keller.
The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one: Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . . Bright--and as black and burning as coal.
An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.
Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace, And music of her face, You'd drop a tear, Seeing more harmony In her bright eye, Than now you hear.
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
