The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Laws are silent in time of war.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.
The popular breeze - Aura popularis
Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.
They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.
We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been
It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.
I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.
Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.
It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.
The science of love is the philosophy of the heart
If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.
Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.
When they remain silent, they cry out.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.
The great theatre for virtue is conscience.
Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!
If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
He has no worse enemy than himself.
Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government
He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.
We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.
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