“To horse, to horse! urge doubts to them that fear.”
Lord Ross, among those making up their minds to abandon Richard II for Bolingbroke, in William Shakespeare The Life and Death of King Richard II Act II Scene ii.
“I cannot understand how a man who is not a Roman Catholic can regard a real Roman Catholic with absolute neutrality. A man who really thinks that a wafer is God Almighty, and who really believes that rational men owe any sort of allegiance to any kind of priest, is either right – in which case the man who differs from him ought to repent in sackcloth and ashes – or else he is wrong, in which case he is the partizan of a monstrous imposture.”
James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty Equality Fraternity
“Most men are bad.”
“A saying often attributed to” Bias of Priene according to Peter D’Epiro and Mary Desmond Pinkowish What are the Seven Wonders of the World? (“along with the advice to live as if our live span will be both long and short.”)
“Nous n’avouons de petits défauts que pour persuader que nous n’en avons pas de grands.”
Réflexions morales #327 in La Rochefoucauld Maximes
“Worry is today’s mice nibbling on tomorrow’s cheese.”
“Anonymous” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail October 26, 2011
“The difference between a successful career and a mediocre one sometimes consists of leaving about four or five things a day unsaid.”
“Bits & Pieces” “Quote from Quotez for 20/1/04” (from www.quotations.co.uk)
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
Charlie Chaplin, quoted in Globe & Mail March 24, 1999
“by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”
The king of Brobdingnag in Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels