Society and the World

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

If I am obliged to bring religion into after-dinner toasts (which indeed does not seem quite the thing) I shall drink—to the Pope, if you please—still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

This hath not offended the king.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.

Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.

The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone,

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!

If the triangles were to make a God they would give him three sides.

One should always have one’s boots on, and be ready to leave.

Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

One should eat to live, and not live to eat.

If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism;

Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet ’em on your way down.

What I have spoken, is the language of that which is not called amiss The good old Cause.