A.T. Baron Quotes
Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.
No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.
Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.
It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.
No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.
It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.
It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.
If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.
The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.
Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.
Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.
O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?
The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.
Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.
Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.
The whole international community will be united in condemning what they have done.
There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.
It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.
Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?
Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal, And strays--but towards a star.
Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.
I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.
If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn't . . .
If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.
It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.
To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.
I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.
We show no relish for reconfiguring the relationship between the state, the market and society. The world is on the turn, yet we do not seem equal to the challenge.
What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.
My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.
The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.
Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out, Showing the unreality of Time.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear.
He, who for Love has undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousand-fold than one, Who never loved at all.
A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.
