Top 19 Cornford Quotes
#1. Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
Mignon McLaughlin
#2. Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
Francis Cornford
#5. Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.
Rick Pitino
#6. Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
Meher Baba
#7. This is going to be a good day! I believe my dreams are coming to pass. God has great things in store.
Joel Osteen
#8. I believe we make our own destinies, every last one of us.
Morgan Rhodes
#9. The political motive in the academic breast is honest enough. It is fear---genuine, perpetual, heart-felt timorousness. All the Political Arguments are addressed to this passion. Have you ever noticed how people say, 'I'm afraid I don't ...' when they mean, 'I think I don't ...'?
Francis Macdonald Cornford
#11. Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.
Francis Cornford
#12. The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.
Francis Cornford
#13. Cynicism is the besetting and venial fault of declining youth, and disillusionment its last illusion.
Francis Macdonald Cornford
#14. My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I, him.
Francis Cornford
#15. I had a little dog and my dog was very small ... Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.
Francis Cornford
#16. This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.
Adolf Hitler
#17. I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day.
Bill Shorten
#18. Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
Francis Cornford
#19. University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.
Francis Cornford
