Augustus Hare Famous Quotes
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
The greatest truths are the simplest.
Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
Augustus Hare Quotations
"It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep."
Psalm 1272 Bible
"But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move."
Barbara Hall
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
"When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them."
Edward Hagerup Grieg
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Donald Curtis
"Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)"
Irving Layton
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.
Hugh Prather
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost
It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
US Marine Proverb
"Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art."
Pietro Aretino