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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill." - Francis Bacon, Essays--Of Boldness At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader All policies allowed in war and love. - Mrs. Susannah Centlivre They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXVII) To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves. - James Abram Garfield The creed of diplomats. - Horace Greeley One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) He has mastered all points who has combined the useful with the agreeable. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery. - Philander Chase Johnson, see "Everybody's Magazine", May, 1920, p. 36 Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day. - Abraham Lincoln Masterly inactivity. - Sir James Mackintosh, Vindicioe Gallicoe, probably from "Strenua inertia", Horace "Epistles", XI, 28 When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter,--thinks I, that man as an axe to grind. - Charles Miner, Who'll turn Grindstones?--Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert the Scribe, in the "Wilkesbarre Gleaner" The publick weal requires that a man should betray, and lye, and massacre. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays--Of Profit and Honesty It is better to walk than to run; it is better to stand than to walk; it is better to sit than to stand; it is better to lie than to sit. - Proverb, (Hindu) In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can. - John Selden The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it. - William Shakespeare To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue; look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at I, v) Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter; that when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences; . . . - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Canterbury at I, i) Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy. - Edwin Percy Whipple We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting. - Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Annual Message, alluding to Mexico Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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