Quotations Page 'C'

For want of timely careMillions have died of medicable wounds.

- Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health -

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If you built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, there is where they should be. Not put foundation under them.

- Thoreau -

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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

- Spinoza -

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Great causes are never tried on their merits.

- Emerson, Essays -

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God befriend us, as our cause, is just!

- Shakespeare, Henry -

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Self can mould the brightest cause or gild the worst.

- T.Moore, The Sceptic -

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Look before you leap; see before you go.

- Tusser -

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A wise man dose not trust all his eggs to one basket.

- Cervantes -

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Early and provident ear is the mother of safety.

- Burke, Speech, 1972 -

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Marching along fifty score strong.And if don't hurt her, she'll do me no harm.

- Jane Taylor, I Like Little Pussy -

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Thou best humoured man with the words humoured muse.

-Goldsmith, Retaliation -

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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

- Shakespeare -

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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

- Swift, Thoughts on various subjects -

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Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance.

- Steele -

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A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

- Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors -

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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

- Anatole France, The Garden o Epicurus -

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Under the bludgeonings of chance.My head is bloody, but unbowed.

- W.E.Heleny, Invictus -

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It is not strange that even our loves should change with our fortune.

- Shakespeare -

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Things do not change, we change.

- Thoreau, Walden -

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