Quotes
Quotes about State
Her washing ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And passed the long, long night away
In darning ragged hose.
But when the sun in all its state
Illumed the Eastern skies,
She passed about the kitchen grate
And went to making pies.
When youth as lord of my unchallenged fate,
And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
I entertained certain guests of state--
The great of older days.
Stately, kindly, lordly friend
Condescend
Here to sit by me.
The stately ship is seen no more,
The fragile skiff attains the shore;
And while the great and wise decay,
And all their trophies pass away,
Some sudden thought, some careless rhyme,
Still floats above the wrecks of Time.
Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."
Stately and tall he moves in the hall,
The chief of a thousand for grace.
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.
Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.
Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour."
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,--yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair's-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast.
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.
He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."
'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.
For where's the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government?
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, until philosophers become kings in this world, or until those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers.
