A.T. Baron Quotes

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.

The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed...This is a different world.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

For those without faith there are no answers, for those with faith there are no questions.

When we married, you measured 36-24-36. Now you're 42-42-42. There's more of you, but you are not worth as much.

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.

Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

...It is a legal requirement to carry out animal testing to ensure they are safe and effective

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

Competition for status is a zero sum game

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far.

Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday.

There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser.

The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.

People compare me to Isiah Thomas because of my quickness and change-of-direction, the way I change speeds and run the team.

I wish Elton Brand the best. He's a great guy. He's always going to be a great friend of mine, regardless of what goes on.