William Cobbett Famous Quotes
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
"Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself."
William Cobbett Quotations
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
No sensible man watches his feet hit the ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next.
Ernest Haycox
"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."
William Shakespeare
In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.
Virgil
"To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form."
Hermann Hesse
"Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it."
Sonny Bono
I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
Sophie Tucker
"At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry."
Gloria Steinem
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
Charlotte Bronte
"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive."
William Frank Buckley Jr