A.T. Baron Quotes

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.

If you get to the top on your own, who'll take the picture?

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.

The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet.

I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

Cycling to work is an important issue for business - the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

Like having your own licence to print money.

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.

Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.

My exit is the result of too many entrees.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.