Frederic William Maitland Famous Quotes



The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.


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"If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed."
Marianne Williamson

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller

There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.
Sir V Pritchett

"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals."
Germaine De Stael

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion."
Francis Bacon

"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."
Paul Eldridge

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
Henry Kissinger

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action."
Anthony Robbins