Quotes
Quotes about Will
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why.
We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
Whoever ... prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.
We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.
God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word.
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
Love thyself, and many will hate thee.
He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
You need not hang up the ivy-branch over the wine that will sell.
That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.
No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.
A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"
Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will; but hear."
When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, "for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot."
Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."
For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man you will learn to halt.
Lysander said, "Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's."
To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting."
