William Pitt Famous Quotes
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
"Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker."
William Pitt Quotations
"If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that the only thing between you and disaster is the strength of that pudding skin."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art."
Marc Chagall
"The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once."
Demosthenes
"There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul."
Jerry Coleman
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Small to greater matters must give way.
William Shakespeare
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann von Goethe
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The younger brother hath the more wit.
John Ray
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
Thomas Huxley