Quotes by Statesmen - Page 5

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
Sir Francis Bacon
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Sir Francis Bacon
What once were vices are now manners.
Seneca
Man is a social animal.
Seneca
Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.
Lord Chatham
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
Lord Chesterfield
Cursed Mammon be when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!
Goethe
The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas More
Alas! how light a cause may move dissention between hearts that love!
Thomas More
Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Francis Bacon
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient.
Seneca
A useless life is an early death.
Goethe
As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.
Seneca
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
Goethe
Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!
Daniel Webster
The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield
Men learn while they teach.
Seneca
Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.
Daniel Webster
Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
I take all knowledge to be my province.
Sir Francis Bacon
For knowledge too is itself a power.
Sir Francis Bacon
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.
Lord Chesterfield
Injustice never rules forever.
Seneca
He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.
Seneca
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Edmund Burke
One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
Goethe
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
Sir Francis Bacon
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Seneca
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Seneca
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
Edmund Burke
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Goethe
We are in truth more than a half of what we are by imitation.
Lord Chesterfield
We do not imitate but are a model to others.
Pericles
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set on the contrary he who imitates what is good always falls short.
Francesco Guicciardini
There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
Goethe
When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.
Goethe
And here poor fool with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
Goethe
Idleness is the holiday of fools.
Lord Chesterfield
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
Otto von Bismarck
A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers.
Seneca
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.
Goethe
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
Sir Francis Bacon
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
Goethe
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
Sir Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.
Lord Chesterfield
He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
Goethe
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
Goethe
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck
Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.
Lord Chesterfield
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca