George Canning Quotes

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

Rick Moody

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

Charles R. Swindoll

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

George Canning

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

George Canning

#11. 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

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

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. 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

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

George Canning

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

George Canning

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

George Canning

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

George Canning

#19. 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

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

John Lloyd Young

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

George Canning

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

George Canning

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

George Canning