Quotes
Quotes - Chapman
To have a smattering knowledge of anything.
To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by some trifling performance. A carpet knight.]
To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him.
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?
If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia] for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
Words writ in waters.
Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
