Quotes
Quotes about Will
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town.
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.âSir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.âOrville Wright.
A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannot tell. From no where we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? Itis a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo inthe winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important.
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up As chance will have it, on the rock or sand: For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?
Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel. - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,
Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.
No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.]
