Quotes
Quotes about Will
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
What you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
Let early education be a sort of amusement, you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
Brasington's Ninth Law: A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned one will take only twice as long.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
I will not play at tug o' war.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
At bottom, every man knows perfectly well that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. - William Julius Mickle,
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
