Quotes
Quotes about Will
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. â¢John Muir Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. â¢William Cowper No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. â¢Jean Paul Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. â¢S. W. Duffield Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. â¢Plutarch I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! â¢Louise A. Bogan A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. â¢Walter Winchell One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. â¢Chinese Proverb How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. â¢Proverb The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu.]
If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course. [Fr., Je suis le signet qui marque la page ou la revolution s'est arretee; mais quand je serai mort, elle tournera le feuillet et reprendra sa marche.]
Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you.
One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.
Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I will step into the pool.
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.
