A.T. Baron Quotes

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

Sacrifice money rather than principle.

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

Master books, but do not let them master you.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

When there is blood on the street, I am buying.

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

We share half our genes with the banana.

There is no heaven like mutual love.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.

Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

Decency renders all things tolerable.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.