J.W. Lord Quotes

I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.

When I want a peerage I shall buy one like an honest man.

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

As the husband is the wife is.

Idleness is the holiday of fools.

We are in truth more than a half of what we are by imitation.

For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.

Give your decision never your reasons your decisions may be right your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen.

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.

That is the beauty of the Common Law it is a maze and not a motorway.

The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'

Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

Marriages are made in Heaven.

The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

I chatter chatter as I flow To join the brimming river For men may come and men may go But I go on forever.

We shall live to fight again and to strike another blow.

To strive to seek to find and not to yield.

A life of nothing's nothing worth From that first nothing ere his birth To that last nothing under earth.

Know the true value of time snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth and parts not with it but for the full value.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

If peace cannot be maintained with honor it is no longer peace.

The war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man the federation of the world.

He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?

Go little letter apace apace Fly Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.

All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.

Break break break On thy cold gray stones O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.

Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.

Home they brought her warrior dead.

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Style is the dress of thoughts.

If people knew what they had to do to be successful most people wouldn't.

Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.