Quotations Page 'D'
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The better part of valour is discretion.
- Shakespeare, Henry IV -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Understand your antagonist before you answer him.
- Canning -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth of Mind can heal.
- Marry Barker Eddy, Science and Health -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court.
- Shakespeare, Winter's Tale -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
- J.G.Holland -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.
- Lavoter, Artemire -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I do desire we may be better strangers.
- Shakespeare, As You Like It -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The shame is in the crime not in the punishment.
- Voltaire, Artemire -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rogues differ little. Each began first as a disobedient son.
- Chinese Proverb -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
With silent smiles of slow disparagement. _ Tennyson, Guinever -Of whom to be disappraised were no small praise.
- Milton, Paradise Regained -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dispatch is the soul of business.
- Chesterfield -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The bost of heraldry, the pomp of power.
- Gray, Elegy -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The bost of heraldry, the pomp of power.
- Gray, Elegy -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
- T.Campbell, The Pleasure of Hope -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The continual habit of dissimilation is but a weak and sluggish cunning, and greatly politic.
- Bacon, Adv.of Learning -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust ?
- George Eliot -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.
- Mme Louise Colet -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There is a divine purpose behind every physical calamity.
- Mahatma Gandhi, Harijan -
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Next Page »

