Quotes from Ancient Times
Jafar ~ Juoy Quotations
They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
To display his eternal attributes in their inexhaustible variety, the Lord made the green fields of time and space.
Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.
I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
We easily pardon an offense we had part in.
Card Quotes
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth!
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
We easily pardon an offense we had part in.
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
Who will watch the watchers?
Quotes cards
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
To display his eternal attributes in their inexhaustible variety, the Lord made the green fields of time and space.
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.