Top 39 Arbuthnot Quotes
#1. which has the power or quality of adding. The additory fiction gives to a great man a larger share of reputation than belongs to him, to enable him to serve some good end or purpose.Arbuthnot'sArt of political Lying.
Samuel Johnson
#2. But we found San Salvatore," said Mrs. Arbuthnot, "and it is rather silly that Mrs. Fisher should behave as if it belonged only to her."
"What is rather silly," said Mrs. Wilkins with much serenity, "is to mind. I can't see the least point in being in authority at the price of one's liberty.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#3. MRS ARBUTHNOT For me the world is shriveled to a palm's breath, and where I walk there are thorns.
HESTER It shall not be so. We shall somewhere find green valleys and fresh waters, and if we weep, well, we shall weep together.
Oscar Wilde
#4. MRS. ARBUTHNOT. When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. LORD
Oscar Wilde
#5. ADUNCITY (ADU'NCITY) n.s.[aduncitas, Lat.]Crookedness; flexure inwards; hookedness. There can be no question, but the aduncity of the pounces, and beaks of the hawks, is the cause of the great and habitual immorality of those animals.Arbuthnot and Pope'sMart. Scrib.
Samuel Johnson
#6. He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot
#8. Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
John Arbuthnot
#9. Things are only worth what you make them worth.
Moliere
#10. John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.
John Arbuthnot
#11. Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!
John Arbuthnot
#12. Okay, so, you know that photo shoot Parker did a while back?" "The one where he wore the earth's luckiest pair of jeans?" "Are you lusting after the object of my affections? Because that's going to make this conversation even more incredibly uncomfortable.
Ashlyn Kane
#14. What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.
John Arbuthnot
#15. Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.
Gwynne Shotwell
#16. O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.
John Arbuthnot
#17. Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.
John Arbuthnot
#18. The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.
John Arbuthnot
#22. Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.
John Arbuthnot
#23. The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice.
John Arbuthnot
#24. All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.
John Arbuthnot
#25. Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
John Arbuthnot
#26. The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.
John Arbuthnot
#27. It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such determin'd side, and therefore I call it Chance, which is nothing but the want of art ...
John Arbuthnot
#28. Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
John Arbuthnot
#29. The only way to find out how far you can trust a person is by wholeheartedly trusting him or her.
Debasish Mridha
#30. We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#31. Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.
John Arbuthnot
#32. All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot
#33. To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.
John Arbuthnot
#34. He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
John Arbuthnot
#35. Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.
Deborah Bull
#36. The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.
John Arbuthnot
#37. I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
Karl Rove
#38. Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
John Arbuthnot
#39. To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
Yann Martel
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