Gilbert Highet Famous Quotes
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those
Gilbert Highet Quotations
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety."
Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us.
La Bruyere
"In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago."
Christina G Rossetti
"Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped."
Earl Nightingale
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.
Edmund Burke
Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently.
John G Vance
"If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also."
Assyrian Proverb
"When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
W R Inge