George Canning Quotes

#1. Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Sydney Smith

#2. Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

George Canning

#3. I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

George Canning

#4. So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

George Canning

#5. Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

George Canning

#6. It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

John Lloyd Young

#7. If Eleanor tried to kiss Park, it would be real-life version of some little girl making her Barbie kiss Ken. Just smashing their faces together.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

George Canning

#9. A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

George Canning

#10. When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

George Canning

#11. There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

George Canning

#12. Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

George Canning

#13. But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

Origen

#14. I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

Elizabeth McCracken

#15. I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

George Canning

#16. Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

George Canning

#17. Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

George Canning

#18. In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

George Canning

#19. Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.

George Canning

#20. Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

George Canning

#21. If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!

George Canning

#22. Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion.

Charles R. Swindoll

#23. I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

Rick Moody