Forbore Quotes

#1. This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

Isaac Newton

#2. You must remember, too," he added, "that we deal with no ordinary criminal, but with the second greatest brain in the world." I forbore to pander to his conceit by asking the obvious question.

Agatha Christie

#3. Pray note that my chest does not appear to be a toast rack in a wet paper bag.
Mort glanced sideways at the top of Ysabell's dress, which contained enough puppy fat for two litters of Rotweilers, and forbore to comment.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Mort glanced sideways at the top of Ysabell's dress, which contained enough puppy fat for two litters of Rottweilers, and forbore to comment.

Terry Pratchett

#5. I was ever a fighter, so
one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, and bade me creep past.

Robert Browning

#6. Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.

Carl Sagan

#8. We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.

Jessi Kirby

#9. I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.

William Krisel

#10. Misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else.

Swami Vivekananda