Great famous quotes - Page 187

Bore

Travel is the most private of pl…

10 Sep , 2009  

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. Sackville-West, Vita

Cunning

Treason doth never prosper: wha…

10 Sep , 2009  

Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. Harrington, John

Goodness

Treat those who are good with go…

10 Sep , 2009  

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained… Lao-Tzu

Courage

True courage is like a kite; a c…

10 Sep , 2009  

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. Petit-Senn, John

Talk

True eloquence consists in sayin…

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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. La Rochefoucauld, François

Glory

True glory takes root, and even …

10 Sep , 2009  

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. Cicero

Want

True it is that covetousness is …

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. Phaedrus

Love

True love is like ghosts, which …

10 Sep , 2009  

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. La Rochefoucauld, François

Class

True nobility is exempt from fea…

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True nobility is exempt from fear. Shakespeare, William

Thoughts

True thoughts have duration in t…

10 Sep , 2009  

True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir. Yen, Lu

Avarice

Truly, it is not want, but rathe…

10 Sep , 2009  

Truly, it is not want, but rather abundance, that breeds avarice. de Montaigne, Michel Eyquem

Truth

Truth cannot be defined or teste…

10 Sep , 2009  

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ‘the world’; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. Goodman, Nelson