Ernest Bramah Quotes

#1. However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

Ernest Bramah

#2. A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

Ernest Bramah

#3. When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

Ernest Bramah

#4. I went to see the Terminator movie the other night. Every time Arnold Schwarzenegger came on the screen this guy in front of me went 'Booo! Booo!' and was throwing stuff. I had to say 'Governor Davis just shut up and sit down!'

Jay Leno

#5. Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

Ernest Bramah

#6. I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.

Randall Robinson

#7. One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

Ernest Bramah

#8. There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.

Ernest Bramah

#9. Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.

Ernest Bramah

#10. Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Ernest Bramah

#11. The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.

Ernest Bramah

#12. Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

Ernest Bramah

#13. The one-legged never stumble.

Ernest Bramah

#14. How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?

Ernest Bramah

#15. The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future

Stefan Molyneux

#16. The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Ernest Bramah

#17. He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.

Ernest Bramah

#18. Recorded history's version does not coincide with the truth, but these are the facts, because they were passed down by word of mouth through the years, and every Maycombian knows them.

Harper Lee

#19. Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

Ernest Bramah

#20. It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.

Ernest Bramah

#21. The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.

Ernest Bramah

#22. He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Ernest Bramah

#23. Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out of enthusiasm, there is a genuine interest, but sometimes they're not exactly prepared for what they're getting themselves into.

Henry Rollins

#24. Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

Ernest Bramah

#25. There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night

Ernest Bramah

#26. Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

Ernest Bramah

#27. declared Mr Marrable magniloquently;

Ernest Bramah

#28. I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.

Anthony Jeselnik

#29. One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

Ernest Bramah

#30. There is often a prophetic word in the words of a prophet, but not everything said is true prophecy.

Iverna Tompkins

#31. Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.

Ernest Bramah