Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil Famous Quotes
Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil Quotations
"No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty."
Leon Wieseltier
"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry."
Michel Leiris
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
Walter Bagehot
"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything."
Herbert Gardner
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward
The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining..."
Lyndon B Johnson
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."
Mark Twain
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle