COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
| Home | Biographical Index | Reading List | Search | Site Notes | Varying Hare Books | | |||
| GIGA Quotes | Quotes by Author | Authors by Date | | |||
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse. - Charles Caleb Colton Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. - Charles Caleb Colton Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) To fear the worst, oft cures the worst. - William Shakespeare Look ere thou leap; see ere thou go. - Thomas Tusser
|
|
