Budgell Quotes

#1. Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.

Matthew Tindal

#2. It is legal because I wish it.

Louis XIV

#3. It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.

Eustace Budgell

#4. Promise me you'll never leave me.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#5. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness in another.

Eustace Budgell

#6. I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything. Anne Sexton, in a letter to W.D. Snodgrass (November 28, 1958)

Anne Sexton

#7. Similarly, the people actually causing the the harm directly don't want us to be reminded of the their practices--in fact, they often make very determined efforts to conceal their cruelty.

Wayne Pacelle

#8. Perceiving a choice between her feelings and her relationships, Dana chose to be liked by others. But the self she displayed was a mask of the person she though others wanted her to be. The Curse of the Good Girl obscured and shamed the most important parts of who she was.

Rachel Simmons

#9. Nature allows one kind to kill another, it's part of the law ... you wonder if man might not be the most savage of all creatures. He's among the few that preys on nearly every other being, that constantly preys on his own species.

Leonard Budgell

#10. Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.

Zygmunt Bauman

#11. I always take my make-up off before bed.

Abbey Clancy

#12. The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.

Eustace Budgell

#13. When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.

Eustace Budgell

#14. Three things Marco taught me today race through my mind: boys will lie to your face just to have sex with you, don't trust any boy who says I love you, and never date a boy who lives on the south side of Fairfield.

Simone Elkeles

#15. It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Rick Perlstein

#16. When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

Eustace Budgell

#17. Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on.

Hosni Mubarak

#18. The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

CeeLo Green

#19. I have never met another like you. You are an original masterpiece.

Jenna Roads

#20. If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

Rita Ora

#21. The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Eustace Budgell

#22. Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Eustace Budgell

#23. One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#24. One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

Terence McKenna