A.T. Baron Quotes

Companies that understand their links with the communities they operate in, and their impact on the environment, are most likely to prosper in the long-term

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Women love energy and grand results.

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.

Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

Nature is always wise in every part.

When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea.

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.

Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

I am not against a little inflation.

Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.

Time is our most precious asset, we should invest it wisely.

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Love will always be the most powerful force.

I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

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I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.

But before and after the Mongol upheaval, the Khazars sent many offshoots into the unsubdued Slavonic lands, helping ultimately to build up the great Jewish centers of eastern Europe.