Collected Quotes & Passages: cont'd.
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Collected Quotes & Passages: cont'd.

  • This earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere), making his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth I, happened to let a fart at which he was so abashed that he went to travell seven years. At his returne the queen welcomed him home and sayd, "My lord, I had forgot the fart."
    - John Aubrey (Brief Lives)

  • (Edward VIII, Prince of Wales visits his grandfather, King Edward VII)
    Prince David was so little afraid of him, in fact, that he was even capable, on one occasion at least, of interrupting his conversation at table. He was reprimanded, of course, and sat in silence until given permission to speak. "It's too late now, grandpapa," Prince David said unconcernedly, "It was a caterpillar on your lettuce but you've eaten it."

  • Let them hate, so long as they fear.
    - Accius 170-c.90 BC

  • Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
    - Lord Acton 1834-1902

  • Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station.
    - Josepf Addison 1672-1719

  • See in what peace a Christian can die.
    - Joseph Addison

  • (A lie)
    An abomination unto the Lord, but a very present help in time of trouble.
    - Anonymous

  • If all be true that I do think,
    There are five reasons we should drink;
    Good wine - a friend - or being dry -
    Or lest we should be by and by -
    Or any other reason why.
    - Dean Aldrich 1647-1710 (Reasons For Drinking)

  • Be happy while y'er leevin, for y'er a lang time deid.
    - Scottish motto for a house

  • See the happy moron, he doesn't give a damn.
    I wish I were a moron. My God! Perhaps I am!
    - Anonymous

  • Silence is the virtue of fools.
    - Francis Bacon 1561-1626

  • The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
    - Francis Bacon

  • I make myself laugh at everything, for fear of having to weep.
    - Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais 1732-1799

  • Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest.
    - Book of Joshua

  • For the Lord seeth not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
    - 2 Samuel 16:7

  • Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
    - 2 Samuel 16:21

  • I know that my redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.
    - Nehemiah

  • He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
    - Book of Proverbs

  • Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
    - Book of Proverbs

  • A fool uttereth all his mind.
    - Book of Proverbs

  • A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
    - Ecclesiastes

  • Forsake not an old friend; for new is not comparable to him; a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
    - Ecclesiastes

  • Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
    - Ecclesiastes

  • And weigh thy words in a balance, and make a door and bar for thy mouth.
    - Ecclesiastes

  • Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately: what life is then to a man that is without wine? For it was made to make men glad.
    - Ecclesiastes

  • No man...having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
    - Book of St. Luke

  • No man, when he hath lighted a candle, puteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.
    - Book of St. Luke

  • I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
    - Book of St. John

  • The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that aint so.
    - Josh Billings 1818-1885

  • Judge Willis:
    "You are extremely offensive, young man."
    F.E. Smith:
    "As a matter of fact, we both are, and the only difference between us is that I am trying to be, and you can't help it."
    - Earl of Birkenhead (F.E. Smith) 1872-1930

  • The true paradises are paradises we have lost.
    - Marcel Proust

  • If Helen Keller were to trip and fall in the forest...would she make a sound?
    - Saturday Night Live rejected joke

  • May we all be around for a long while, so that thousands of miles apart we can still watch the moon together.
    - Chinese Ode (Sung Dynasty)

  • Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.

  • We cannot direct the wind, but we can direct our sails.

  • I can't believe today will be one of the good ol' days.

  • Good judgement is usually the result of experience,
    Experience is often the result of bad judgement.

  • Nothing is quite so annoying as to have someone go right on talking when you're interrupting.

  • The finger of God touches your life when you make a friend.
    - Jean Grindle

  • A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
    - Charles Kingsley

  • It is my joy in life to find
    At every turning of the road
    The strong arms of a comrade kind
    To help me onward with my load;
    And since I have no gold to give,
    And love alone must make amends,
    My only prayer is, while I live -
    God make me worthy of my friends.
    - Frank Dempster Sherman

  • A faithful friend is a strong defence, and he that hath found him, hath found a treasure.

  • Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  • If you think education is expensive, you ought to try ignorance.

  • Accept me as I am so I can learn what I can become.

  • Even an ordinary horse can be outstanding in his own field.

  • Lord, protect me from myself.

  • "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

  • He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

  • We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
    - Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time)

  • The weak must be bold cautiously.
    - Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time)

  • Woman was created to please the eye...and trouble the mind.
    - Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time)

  • Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.
    - Napoleon Bonaparte

  • It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done, if you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.
    - John Ruskin 1819-1900

  • ...Hugh came gradually to realise how deceptive was Bran de Montfort's affability, how effective a shield. Bran remained a man in shadow; he might lower the drawbridge into his outer bailey, but there would be no admittance into the castle keep.
    - Sharon Kay Penman (The Reckoning)

  • When you cannot get what you want, it is wiser sometimes to want what you can get.
    - Sharon Kay Penman (The Reckoning)

  • A grandfather said to his six-year-old granddaughter, "I'll give you a quarter if you can tell me where God is."
    The young girl wisely replied, "I'll give you two quarters if you can tell me where God isn't."

  • Some people will see the light only when they feel the heat.

  • Nobody notices what I do, until I don't do it.

  • Laughter is the best revenge.

  • You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
    - Naguib Mahfouz

  • Success is when you get what you want. Happiness is when you want what you get.

  • As celebrations, birthdays are great. As rites of passage, certain birthdays have more meaning than others. But chronological age doesn't mean all that much in the big picture. The reminder to "act our age" is not good advice most of the time. Perhaps one of the most important tasks of adulthood is to cultivate the magic of childhood. To lose ourselves to the joy of the day and fall into bed at night, exhausted and satisfied - this is the fine art of living a full life. If we look, act, and feel younger than our chronological age, we're doing something very right. It probably means we've discarded a lot of social programming and rejected the notion that getting older means having les fun. Even if you don't have fond memories of your own life as a kid, as someone wisely observed, "It is never too late to have a happy childhood." Being a kid again doesn't mean we should dwell on the past. Remembering how, long ago, we played hide and seek with our pals isn't the same thing as playing hide and seek now. And it is the right now quality of life where the kid can be found in you. It is about discovering our innocence, letting go of judgements, and being an enthusiastic participant in life.
    - David Miln Smith & Sandra Leicester (Hug The Monster)

  • It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
    - Roger Ascham 1515-1568

  • And to speak truly, "Antiquitas saeculi, juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient.
    - Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626

  • If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
    - Sir Francis Bacon

  • They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
    - Sir Francis Bacon

  • As it hath been wisely noted, the most corrected copies are commonly the least correct.
    - Sir Francis Bacon

  • Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed and crushed; for prosperity does best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
    - Sir Francis Bacon

  • He laid her on the table
    So white, clean and bare.
    His forehead wet with beads of sweat
    He rubbed her here and there.
    He touched her neck and then her breast
    And then drooling felt her thigh.
    The slit was wet and all was set,
    He gave a joyous cry.
    The hole was wide...he looked inside
    All was dark and murky.
    He rubbed his hands and stretched his arms..........

    And then he stuffed the turkey.

  • When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful.
    - Captain E.J. Smith of R.M.S. Titanic

  • It is an old saying, "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."
    - Robert Burton 1577-1640

  • Set not thy foot to make the blind man fall;
    Nor wilfully offend thy weaker brother:
    Nor wound the dead with thy tongue's bitter gall;
    Neither rejoice thou in the fall of other.
    - Robert Burton

  • Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
    - Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881

  • The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
    - Thomas Carlyle

  • Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
    - George Chapman

  • Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
    - George Chapman

  • Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
    - Earl of Chesterfield (Letter to his son)

  • Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least.
    - Earl of Chesterfield

  • Aquaintance I would have, but when't depends
    Not on the number, but the choice of friends.
    - Abraham Cowley 1618-1667

  • No skill in swordmanship, however just,
    Can be secure against a madman's thrust.
    - William Cowper 1731-1800

  • Words learned by rote, a parrot may rehearse,
    But talking is not always to converse.
    - William Cowper

  • Then trust me there's nothing like drinking
    So pleasant on this side the grave;
    It keeps the unhappy from thinking,
    And makes e'en the valiant more brave.
    - Charles Dibdin 1745-1814 (Nothing like Grog)

  • Duos qui sequitor lepores neutrum capit.
    He who chases two hares catches neither.

  • To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
    - Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881

  • To those who know thee not, no words can paint;
    And those who know thee know all words are faint.
    - Hannah More 1745-1833

  • A faithful friend is a true image of the Deity.
    - Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Friendship take heed; if woman interfere,
    Be sure the hour of thy destruction's near.
    - John Vanbrugh 1664-1726

  • Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt;
    And every grin, so merry, draws one out.
    - John Wolcot 1738-1817

  • If you your lips would keep from slips,
    Five things observe with care:
    To whom you speak, of whom you speak,
    And how, and when, and where.
    - W.E. Norris

  • And from the top of all my trust
    Mishap hath thrown me in the dust.
    - Mary Queen of Scots

  • Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
    - Cato the Censor c.260-150 B.C.

  • Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experiences.
    - Cervantes 1547-1616

  • Ad connectendas amicitias, tenacissimum vinculum est morum similitudo.
    For binding friendships, a similarity of manners is the surest tie.
    - Pliny the Younger

  • Aegis fortissima virtus.
    Virtue is a very strong shield.

  • Aequum est peccatis veniam poscentam reddere rursus.
    It is just that he who asks forgiveness for his offences should grant it in return.
    - Horace

  • Alter ipse amicus.
    A friend is another self.

  • Amici probantur rebus adversis.
    Friends are tested by adverse fortune.

  • Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum.
    Unless you bear with the fault of a friend, you betray your own.

  • Amicis inesse adulationem.
    Flattery is natural in friends.

  • Amico firmo nihil emi melius potest.
    Nothing can be purchased which is better than a firm friend.

  • Amicorum, magis quam tuam ipius laudem, praedica.
    Set forth the praises of your friends, rather than your own.

  • Amicum perdere est damnorum maximum.
    To lose a friend is the greatest of injuries.

  • Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.
    A certain friend is recognised in an uncertain business.

  • Amicus est tanquam alter idem.
    A friend is, as it were, a second self.

  • Dubiis ne defice rebus.
    Do not fail me when fortune is doubtful.
    - Virgil

  • Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli.
    I am a barbarian here, because I am not understood by anyone.

  • Bene si amico faceris ne pigeat fecisse, at potius pudeat si non faceris.
    If you have done well to a friend, let it not grieve you, but rather be ashamed if you have not done so.
    - Plautus

  • Est profecto Deus, qui quae nos gerimus auditique et videt.
    There is assuredly a God who both hears and sees what we are doing.
    - Plautus

  • Laudo, malum cum amici tuum ducis malum.
    I praise you when you regard the trouble of your friend as your own.
    - Plautus

  • Est animus, tibi sunt mores, est lingua fidesque.
    You have courage, manners and conversation, and sense of honour.
    - Horace

  • Et monere et moneri, proprium est verae amicitae.
    Both to advise and to be advised is a feature of real friendship.
    - Cicero

  • Etiam in secundissimis rebus maxime est utendum consilio amicorum.
    Even in the utmost prosperity the advice of friends is to be very greatly employed.
    - Cicero

  • Ex vitio alterius sapiens emendat suum.
    From another's evil qualities a wise man corrects his own.
    - Publilius Syrus

  • Idem velle et idem nolle, ea denum firma amicitia est.
    To desire the same thing and to dislike the same thing, that alone makes firm friendship.

  • Mortales inimicitias, sempiternas amicitias.
    Our enmities mortal, our friendships eternal.

  • Nunquam praeponens se aliis; ita facillime sine invidia invenias laudem, et amicos pares.
    Never preferring himself to others; thus very readily you may find praise without envy, and friends to your taste.

  • Multas amicitias silentium diremit.
    Silence has been the loss of many friendships.

  • Nihil pretio parco, amico dum opitulor.
    I spare no cost so long as I serve my friend.

  • Quae volumus et credimus libenter, et quae sentimus ipse, reliquos sentire putamus.
    The things which we desire and readily believe, and ourselves feel, we imagine that the rest of the world also feels.
    - Caesar

  • Quod pudet socium, prudens celare memento.
    What causes shame to a friend, remember as a wise man to keep concealed.

  • Scilicet ut fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum, Tempore sic duro est inspicienda fides.
    Just as the yellow gold is tested in the fire, so is friendship to be proved in an evil time.

  • Somnia me terrent veros imitantia casus; Et vigilant sensus in mea damna mei.
    Dreams terrify me, depicting real misfortunes, and my senses are awake to my losses.
    - Ovid

  • Socius fidelis anchora tutus est.
    A faithful comrade is a sure anchor.

  • Vulgare amici nomen, sed rara est fides.
    The name of friend is common, but faith in friendship is rare.
    - Phaedrus

  • Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.
    Anybody can err, but only the fool persists in his fault.
    - Cicero

  • Bibere humanum est, ergo bibamus.
    To drink is human, let us therefore drink.

  • It is more shameful to mistrust your friends than to be deceived by them.
    - La Rochefoucauld

  • We scarcely ever find any people of good sense, excepting those who are of our own opinion.
    - La Rochefoucauld

  • Patience is the art of hoping.
    - Vauvenargues

  • The earth is covered with people who do not deserve to be spoken to.
    - Voltaire

  • Silence is the wit of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
    - Bonnard

  • Since Adam's time fools have been in the majority.
    - Delavigne

  • As soon as I was born I wept, and every day shows why.
    - Proverb

  • Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
    - Proverb

  • A woman's greatest weapon is man's imagination.

  • "...life affects the very young...those young grow up to become an effect on life."
    - Michael Slade (Headhunter)

  • In the currency of friendship there is only a single test. Will your friend be at your side if you should ever need him?
    - Michael Slade (Headhunter)

  • If your parents disapprove of you and are cunning with their disapproval, there will never come a dawn when you can become convinced of your own value. There is no fixing a damaged childhood. The best you can hope for is to make the sucker float.
    - Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

  • Nature abhors a vacuum, but it abhors perfect happiness even more.
    - Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

  • As I applauded, I knew that it would always be my burdon, not that I lacked genious, but that I was fully aware of it.
    - Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

  • We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
    - George Bernard Shaw

  • Most of the time it was probably real bad being stuck down in a dungeon. But some days, when there was a bad storm outside, you'd look out your little window and think, "Boy, I'm glad I'm not out in that."
    - Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

  • If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.
    - Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

  • A man does what he must. In spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures. And that is the basis of all human morality.
    - John F. Kennedy

  • Those who master others have force. Those who master themselves have strength.
    - Confucius

  • The nice thing about enemies is that you know where they stand. This is not always true of friends.

  • Bravery was not something that was inspired by king or country or even by battalion. Bravery was what a man owed his friends. It was keeping pride and faith in front of those friends.
    - Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe's Waterloo)

  • Thou sayest thou art as weary as a dog,
    As angry, sick, and hungry as a dog,
    As dull and melancholy as a dog,
    As lazy, sleepy, idle as a dog.
    But why dost thou compare thee to a dog?
    In that for which all men despise a dog,
    I will compare thee better to a dog.
    Thou art as fair and comely as a dog,
    Thou art as true and honest as a dog,
    Thou art as kind and liberal as a dog,
    Thou art as wise and valiant as a dog.
    - Sir John Davies (In Cineam) Written 1594

  • The dog has an absolutely uncanny knack of knowing what we are thinking, even of what we are feeling...but I do not really understand my dogs. Many and many a time I have been aware that they have been trying to tell me something. But I am unable to cross the frontier into the dog's mind. They, it seems to me, can cross the frontier into mine whenever they wish. The fact is that the dog can live, happily and at ease, in two worlds: his and our own. The dog is cleverer than we are.
    - Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald

  • (On Dogs) And when we bury our face in our hands and wish we had never been born, they don't sit up very straight and observe that we have brought it all upon ourselves. They don't even hope it will be a warning to us. But they come up softly, and shove their heads against us...he looks up with his big, true eyes, and says with them, "Well, you've always got me, you know. We'll go through the world together, and always stand by each other, won't we?"
    - Jerome K. Jerome (Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow)

  • "Hey, that's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubborness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up."
    - Dean Koontz (Icebound)

  • Never interrupt an enemy while he's making a mistake.
    - Napoleon Bonaparte

  • I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come, if alive.
    - William Sherman to Ulysses S. Grant

  • There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel they have not said enough.
    - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

  • Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
    - Ernest Hemmingway

  • An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
    - Ernest Hemmingway

  • Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
    - Benjamin Franklin

  • People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot.
    - Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

  • I drink to make other people interesting.
    - George Jean Nathan

  • In the end we will remember, not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
    -Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

  • God Save The Queen

    God save our gracious Queen,
    Long live our noble Queen,
    God Save The Queen!
    Send her victorious,
    Happy and glorious,
    Long to reign over us.
    God Save The Queen!

    O Lord our God arise,
    Scatter our enemies,
    And make them fall.
    Confound their politics,
    Frustrate their knavish tricks,
    On thee our hopes we fix.
    God save us all!

    Thy choicest gifts in store,
    On her, be pleased to pour,
    Long may she reign.
    May she defend our laws,
    And ever give us cause,
    To sing with heart and voice.
    God Save The Queen!

    Not in this land alone,
    But be God's mercies known,
    From shore to shore!
    Lord make the nations see,
    That men should brothers be,
    And form one family,
    The wide world over.

    From every latent foe,
    From the assassins blow,
    God save the Queen!
    O'er her thine arm extend,
    For Britain's sake defend,
    Our mother, prince, and friend,
    God save the Queen!


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