A.T. Baron Quotes
We shouldn't have all these campaigns to get the Birmingham Six released if they'd been hanged. They'd have been forgotten and the whole community would be satisfied.
The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.
There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.
I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.
The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.
But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.
Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
A good wife must be strong enough to pull a plough and have a very erotic physique.
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.