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If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes. - Alexander, the Great, to Diogenes when asked to stand out of his sunshine, in Plutarch's "Life of Alexander" When you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye shall serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. - Bible, Joshua (ch. XXIV, v. 15) But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. - Bible, Luke (ch. X, v. 42) For many are called, but few are chosen. - Bible, Matthew (ch. XXII, v. 14) You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there. - Harry Browne Follow thou thy choice. - William Cullen Bryant He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5), quoted Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), The Giaour (l. 969) Of harmes two the less is for to chose. - Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (bk. II, l. 470) What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all! - Arthur Hugh Clough, Peschiera Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon (p. 362) Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.] - Pierre Corneille, Heraclius (IV, 4) When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad. - Samuel Daniel I choose to be found doing my duty. - Abraham Davenport Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. - Tryon Edwards The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Daniel Deronda (bk. VI, ch. XLII) God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay--Intellect Betwixt the devil and the deep sea. - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus, Adagia (ch. III, cent. VI, 94), quoted from the Greek Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.] - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus, Letter to Pirkheimer Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.] - Leon Michel Gambetta We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. - Kahlil Gibran I will offer a choice, not an echo. - Barry M. Goldwater Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one. - Robert Herrick But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance, and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice. - Mark Hopkins Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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