Quotes by Statesmen - Page 8

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.
Edmund Burke
A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Goethe
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Sir Francis Bacon
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.
Goethe
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.
Sir Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
Beautiful is greater than Good for it includes the Good.
Goethe
The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
Sir Francis Bacon
I call architecture 'petrified music'.
Goethe
Architecture is frozen music.
Goethe
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.
Goethe
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Lord Chesterfield
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks.
Seneca
It is not death we fear but the thought of it.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.
Daniel Webster
When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster
So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.
Goethe
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch
Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Sir Francis Bacon
Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield
But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.
Goethe
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Francis Bacon
Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.
Francis Bacon
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Seneca
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
Seneca
What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Goethe
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.
Seneca
Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts
Bernard M. Baruch
Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay.
Seneca
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Seneca
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?
Francis Bacon
Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.
Seneca
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Bernard M. Baruch
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetites, which shake the public with the same t —“troublous storms that tossThe private state, and render life unsweet.”These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men, are the pretexts.
Edmund Burke
...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the misery of others; and would not be satisfied with being thought a goddess, if none were left that were miserable, over whom she might insult. Pride thinks its own happiness shines the brighter, by comparing it with the misfortunes of other persons; that by displaying its own wealth they may feel their poverty the more sensibly.
Thomas More
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Seneca
The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
Francis Bacon
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand
Seneca