Quotes by Polymaths - Page 6

No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost and for want of a horse the rider was lost being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Men who leave their mark on the world are very often those who, being gifted and full of nervous power, are at the same time haunted and driven by a dominant idea, and are therefore within a measurable distance of insanity.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.