Quotations Page 'B'
Thursday, 31 October 2024
The best hearts are ever the bravest.
- Sterne -
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Man shall not live by bread alone.
- Mathew, Old Testament -
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O, God! that bread should be so dear,And flesh and blood so cheap!
- Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt -
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Good breeding is the blossom of sense.
- Young, Love of Fame -
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet -
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Since brevity is the soul of wit,And tediousness the limits and outward flourishers I will be brief.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet -
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Every man has his price.
- Sir Robert Walpole -
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold.Esteem and love were never to be sold.
- Pope, Essay on Man -
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Too poor for a bribe, and too pround to importune. He had not the method of making a fortune.
- Grey, On his Own Character -
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Am I brother's keeper ?
- Old Testament, Genesis, iv -
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A brother is a friend given by nature.
- J.B.Legouv -
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No distance breaks the tie of blood;Brothers are brothers evermore.Father and motherAsk reverence; a brother only love.
- Tennyson, In Memoriam -
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Ther is no brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God.
- H.M.Field -
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The conviction of the justification of using even most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.
- Adlof Hitler, Mein Kampf -
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He built it better than he knew;The conscious stone to beauty grew.
- Emerson, The Problem -
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It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and piece ofscarlet serge draped over a sick.
- Earnest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon -
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That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
- Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler -
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Business to-day consists in persuading crowds.
- Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds -
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The man who is above the business may one day find his business above him.
- H.W.Beecher -
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