2,260 quotes found
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
“The world forgetting by the world forgot.”
“To understand is to forgive even oneself.”
“How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?”
“Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.”
“He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind.”
“And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.”
“The entire civil service is like a fortress made of papers forms and red tape.”
“False happiness is like false money it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy and feel the...”
“The learned is happy nature to explore the fool is happy that he knows no more.”
“In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity.”
“Know then thyself presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man.”
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast Man never is but always to be blest.”
“For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best Welcome the coming speed the going guest.”
“Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend.”
“Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?”
“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again.”
“The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.”
“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.”
