The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
Work is the province of cattle.
Dorothy Parker
We like to be deceived.
Blaise Pascal
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
Edward Gibbon
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Style is the image of character.
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated. The natives of Europe were brave and robust. Spain, Gaul, Britain, and Illyricum, supplied the legions with excellent soldiers, and constituted the real strength of the monarchy. Their personal valour remained, but they no longer possessed that public courage which is nourished by the love of independence, the sense of national honour, the presence of danger, and the habit of command. They received laws and governors from the will of their sovereign, and trusted for their defence to a mercenary army. The posterity of their boldest leaders was contented with the rank of citizens and subjects. The most aspiring spirits resorted to the court or standard of the emperors; and the deserted provinces, deprived of political strength or union, insensibly sunk into the languid indifference of private life.
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
Billy Gibbons
There are no office hours for leaders.
Cardinal J. Gibbons
People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
Joe Gibbs
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
Philip Gibbs
The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
Willard Gibbs
Be yourself, who else is better qualified?
Frank J. Giblin
If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.
Les Giblin
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
Althea Gibson
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.
Mimfa A. Gibson
Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
Tobias S. Gibson
One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.
John Gielgud
There are no winners, only survivors.
Frank Gifford
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
Dr. Rob Gilbert
The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
Ken Gilbert
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
Steven Gilbert
Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.
W. S. Gilbert
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
Time discovered truth.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
Edwin C. Bliss
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.
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