Henry Brougham Famous Quotes
It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
Henry Brougham Quotations
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb
"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric."
Maya Angelou
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
Albert Einstein
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
Henry David Thoreau
The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Carl Barzun
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"'Are you lost, daddy' I asked tenderly. 'Shut up,' he explained."
Ring Lardner
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
Nathaniel Emmons