A.P. Herbert Quotes

Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.

The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Yeeres know more then bookes.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

Love is the true price of love.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

I cry for those not yet dead.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.

The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

When God will, no winde but brings raine.

Death keepes no Calender.

All things in their beeing are good for something.

The successful writer listens to himself.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

Everyone puts his fault on the Times.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

The night is a tunnel ... a hole into tomorrow.

Talking payes no toll.

Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.]

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.

When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.

The blind eate many a flie. [The blind eat many a fly.]

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

One foote is better then two crutches.

Beare with evill, and expect good.