Quotes by Statesmen - Page 3

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
Goethe
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
Goethe
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Sir Francis Bacon
Queen of arts and daughter of heaven.
Edmund Burke
Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.
Goethe
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men I will find something in them which will hang him.
Richelieu
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Seneca
There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.
Edmund Burke
If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
Know thine opportunity.
Pittacus
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Time is the author of authors.
Francis Bacon
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles
The less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns one procrastinates one can do it when one will and therefore one seldom does it at all whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it and then they always find time enough to do it.
Lord Chesterfield
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard M. Baruch
One should count each day a separate life.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Lord Chesterfield
Seize time by the forelock.
Pittacus
Nothing is ours except time.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Sir Francis Bacon
They laboriously do nothing.
Seneca
Men do not fail they stop trying.
Elihu Root
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.
Daniel Webster
We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
Goethe
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Edmund Burke
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Goethe
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
The unnatural - that too is natural.
Goethe
Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
Goethe
Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
Francis Bacon
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
Revenge is an inhuman word.
Seneca
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.
Edmund Burke
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
Cato the Elder
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
Sir Francis Bacon
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
Francis Bacon
The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Reading maketh a full man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
Otto von Bismarck
I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten but they may start a winning game.
Goethe
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
Bernard M. Baruch
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.
Bernard M. Baruch
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
George Mason
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.
Seneca
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Seneca