Consisteth Quotes

#1. Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

Walter Savage Landor

#2. Virtue consisteth of three parts,
temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Epicurus

#3. The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise onely: which Rules, neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had the curiosity, or the method to find out.

Thomas Hobbes

#4. It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.

Isaac Barrow

#5. Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.

Joseph Hall

#6. True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

Solon

#7. 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Anonymous

#8. Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

Richard Baxter

#9. War consisteth not in battle only,or the act of fighting;but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known

Thomas Hobbes

#10. The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

Thomas Hobbes

#13. I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.

Douglas Adams

#14. I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

Michael Landon

#15. That's the problem with arguing with Sig. We start at point A and then go straight to step thirteen and wind up in phase orange and then, you know, we're in the linen aisle looking for windshield wipers. I

Elliott James

#16. You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.

Bjork

#17. But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

Ogden Nash

#18. The market is perfectly well supplied at the moment but spare capacity is very limited.

Claude Mandil

#19. The eye can see what we have in common or focus on what keeps us apart. And the heart can feel what joins us with everything or replay its many cuts. And the tongue can praise the wind or warn against the storm, can praise the sea or dread the flood.

Mark Nepo

#20. As a woman I have a country; as a woman I cannot divest myself of that country merely bu condemning its government or by saying three times "As a woman my country is the whole world." -Notes Towards a Politics of Location.

Adrienne Rich

#21. Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

Ralph Waldo Emerson