A.T. Baron Quotes
It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.
The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.
Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?
The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.
We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.
Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.
I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.
Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the casual wind.
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Christianity must mean everything to us before it can mean anything to others.
Are you committed to your highest vision for your life or are you just satisfied to dream?
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have said nothing to make me more proud; every Chick was needed before the end.
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.
Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air.
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.