A.P. Herbert Quotes

Hee that is a master must serve (another).

Trust not one night's ice.

Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.

Better a bare foote then none.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

Service without reward is punishment.

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

Good and quickly seldom meet.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;" it establishes unquestionable

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

The Catt sees not the mouse ever.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.

Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

Those that God loves, do not live long.

One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.