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7190 quotesCourage in danger is half the battle.
Courage
Titus Maccius Plautus
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Ones oldest friend is the best.
Friends and Friendship
Titus Maccius Plautus
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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Talent
Titus Maccius Plautus
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Reality
Titus Maccius Plautus
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
Honor
Pliny The Elder
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Belief
Pliny The Elder
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The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
Farming and Farmers
Pliny The Elder
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The ability to sign a check is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.
Company
David Plowright
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
Birth
Plutarch
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Ancestry
Plutarch
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Adversity
Plutarch
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Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Rest
Plutarch
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Silence
Plutarch
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Uncategorised
Plutarch
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Achievement
Plutarch
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Mind
Plutarch
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The wildest colts make the best horses.
Children
Plutarch
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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Money
Plutarch
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The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
Farming and Farmers
R. Pocock
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Beauty
Edgar Allan Poe
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Coward and Cowardice
Edgar Allan Poe
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Mobs
Edgar Allan Poe
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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Children
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.
Greatness
Maralyn Polak
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We're talking scum here. Air should be illegal if they breathe it.
Drugs
Policeman
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun