Quotes to inspire and reflect

What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation … The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear,

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

The original is unfaithful to the translation. of Henley’s translation of Beckford ’s Vathek

In me there is darkness, but with you there is light.

Jesus is there only for others … ‘the man for others’, and therefore the crucified.

I shall have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people.

A fool can always find a greater fool to admire him.

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it.

Never express yourself more clearly than you think.

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,

When the stars threw down their spears

O Rose, thou art sick!

In the morning glad I see,

I was angry with my friend;

My mother groaned! my father wept.

Ah, Sun-flower! weary of time,

Love seeketh not itself to please,

Hear the voice of the Bard!

My mother bore me in the southern wild,

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

Little Lamb who made thee?

Your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

For Mercy has a human heart,

Never pain to tell thy love

Piping down the valleys wild,

He who binds to himself a joy

What is it men in women do require?

Mock on, mock on Voltaire, Rousseau:

The atoms of Democritus

And did those feet in ancient time

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Exuberance is beauty.

Damn braces: Bless relaxes.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by Incapacity.

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Energy is Eternal Delight.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet, and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.

I give you the end of a golden string;

I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s.