Quotes

Quotes about Cause


One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span,
Because to laugh is proper to the man.

François Rabelaisc

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.

Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne

Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.

Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne

If on my theme I rightly think,
There are five reasons why men drink,--
Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry,
Or lest I should be by and by,
Or any other reason why.

John Sirmond

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Blaise Pascal

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

Blaise Pascal

It is more than a crime; it is a political fault," --words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.

Joseph Fouch&eacute

I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red,
At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise.

Edmond Rostand

I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Old Testament

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

Old Testament

The grinders cease because they are few.

Old Testament

The grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

Old Testament

Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

New Testament

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

New Testament

Cause me no causes.

Appendix

The communication media inflate language because they dare not be honest and call a spade a spade

The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life. Because if you were entitled to life, then the life would have to be quantified. How many years? Seventy? Sixty? Shakespeare was dead at fifty-two. Keats was dead at twenty-six. Thomas Chatterton at seventeen.

The establishment rejected him. And it was because he’d had the guts to fight and get gassed, while the rest of the bastards stayed at home.

Because we were too intellectual and clever and humanistic to believe in a hell didn’t mean that a hell couldn’t exist.

A poem isn’t important because of the biographical truth of the content.

Human beings are defined by freedom of choice. Once you have them doing what theyre told is good just because theyre going to get a lump of sugar instead of a kick up the ahss (?!) then ethnics no longer exists. The state could tell them it was good to go off and mug and rape and kill some other nation.

It is because literature has no power to imitate the sound of music that it is led to mockery of its sister art

Life is death because it moves towards death from its very beginning

Life is circular and the beginning of a circle is also its end; life is not a rectilinear continuum. Thus the season of renewal is cruel because renewal entails the death of the old, and we may have committed ourselves to the old.

Poetry of a surrealistic kind can, as a dream can, free the imagination from the trammels of daily cause and effect

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