A.T. Baron Quotes

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

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.

empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.

It's nice to be important, but it's also important to be nice. Never forget that.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary.....The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence.

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.

When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

Every soil does not produce every material.

The classic literature is always modern.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.

Of two evils, choose the more interesting.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.