Quotes
Quotes about State
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled "wrong.".
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
But when the sun in all his state, Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through glory's morning gate, And walked in Paradise.
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.
I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.
I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers, And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight. I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.
I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.
DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Diplomacy: lying in state.
Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.
Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy, How well supplied with noble counsellors, How modest in exception, and withal How terrible in constant resolution, And you shall find his vanities forespent Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, Covering discretion with a coat of folly; As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots That shall first spring and be most delicate.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.
Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States.
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourselves.
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
