Quotes to inspire and reflect

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries—for heavy ones they cannot.

It is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved, if he is to fail in one of the two.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Let me die a youngman’s death

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly.

We were saying yesterday …

Much of … his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

I have a wife, I have sons: we have given so many hostages to the fates.

Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done.

There comes Poe with his raven like Barnaby

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Houston, we’ve had a problem.

So I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

It was the schooner Hesperus,

Something attempted, something done,

Under a spreading chestnut tree

One if by land and two if by sea;

Listen, my children, and you shall hear

Dark behind it rose the forest,

By the shore of Gitche Gumee,

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand

Let us, then, be up and doing,

Lives of great men all remind us

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

Life is real! Life is earnest!

Not in the clamour of the crowded street,

The heights by great men reached and kept

A boy’s will is the wind’s will

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls

The holiest of all holidays are those

The shades of night were falling fast,

This is the forest primeval.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;

The cares that infest the day

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!

Between the dark and the daylight,

The call of the wild.

I shot an arrow into the air,

Come to the edge.

The great and chief end, therefore, of men’s uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.

The only way by which any one divests himself of his natural liberty and puts on the bonds of civil society is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community.

Man being … by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

Whatsoever … [man] removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.

The end of law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.