Quotes by Orators

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body but can never be so in mind.
Cicero
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable so with autobiography.
Hilaire Belloc
The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat With an indolent expression and an undulating throat - Like an unsuccessful literary man.
Hilaire Belloc
When I am dead I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet but his books were read.'
Hilaire Belloc
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
Cicero
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
George Herbert
Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said "Of the world" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
Cicero
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
Cicero
Night is the mother of counsels.
George Herbert
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Cicero
Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.
Daniel Webster
For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.
Patrick Henry
O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!
Cicero
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
George Herbert
Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
Cicero
The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert G. Ingersoll
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
Oh what times! Oh what standards!
Cicero
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.
George Herbert
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would every inebriate would if he could.
J. B. Gough
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
Cicero
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Cicero
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.
Cicero
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster
There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
If you want to succeed you must make your own opportunities as you go.
John B. Gough
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Cicero
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Cicero
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Cicero
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
George Herbert
The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
Cicero
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
Demosthenes
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.
George Herbert
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Cicero
Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
Wendell Phillips
Revolutions are not made they come.
Wendell Phillips
With soap baptism is a good thing.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
Cicero
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Cicero
In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
Cicero
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.
George Herbert
He that will learn to pray let him to sea.
George Herbert
As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."
Wendell Phillips
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
Chauncey Depew
Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.
Wendell Phillips
Politics is but the common pulse beat.
Wendell Phillips