Quotes-My Collection

1. I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~Joseph Addison.
2. A friend in power is a friend lost. ~ Henry Adams
3. And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of people is the voice of God since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. ~ Alcuin
4. Happy is that city which in times of peace thinks of war. ~ Burton
5. Multiplication is vexation, Division is as bad; The rule of three doth puzzle me, and practice drives me mad. ~ Elizabethan MS dated 1570
6. Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that defences of peace must be constructed. ~ Constitution of the UNESCO 1946
7. There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us. ~ ANON
8. whenever God prepares evil for a man, He first damages his mind. ~ Greek saying.
9. Of right and wrong he taught, truths as refined as ever Athens heard; and strange to tell he practiced what he preached. ~ Art of preserving health.
10. And we forget because we must And not because we will. ~Matthew Arnold.
11. Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. ~ The Grande Chartreuse.
12. Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! All stands fast Thou thyself must break at last. Let the long  contention cease! Geese are swans and swans are geese, Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still. ~ The last Word.
13. Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ~ Sohrab and Rustum 1853
14. The true meaning of religion is this not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. ~ Anon.
15. There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit to learning, as is praise. ~ The Schoolmaster 1570
16. O let not time deceive you, You cannot conquer time. ~ W. H. Auden
17. Clutching a little case, He walks out briskly to infect a city whose terrible future may have just arrived. ~Gare du Midi
18. Give me chastity and continency- but not yet! ~ Confessions
19. There are some other that account wife and children as bills of charges. ~  Francis Bacon
20. It is the wisdom of the crocodiles that shed tears when they would devour. ~ Of Wisdom For a Man’s Self.

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