Himselfe Quotes

#1. Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.

George Herbert

#2. Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.

George Herbert

#3. For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#4. He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.

George Herbert

#5. It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

Francis Bacon

#6. He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

George Herbert

#7. Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.

Paul Auster

#8. Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.

George Herbert

#9. Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE"
"I had no choice" said Will " He was choking me"
"I know" Jem said. " But really Will, AGAIN?

Cassandra Clare

#10. Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

Thom S. Rainer

#11. The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Francis Bacon

#12. A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.

George Herbert

#13. It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

Gregory Crewdson

#14. Real greatness has nothing to do with a man's sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.

William Ellery Channing

#15. No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

Thomas Hobbes

#16. The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

William Shakespeare

#17. At Court, every one for himselfe.
[At court, everyone for himself.]

George Herbert

#18. He that measures not himselfe, is measured.

George Herbert

#19. Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.

George Herbert

#20. He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.

George Herbert

#21. If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge."
We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.

Holly Black

#22. A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.

George Herbert

#23. He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.

George Herbert

#24. What begins very badly can only get better.

Catherine Anderson

#25. None is offended but by himselfe.

George Herbert

#26. What makes cities great, and what leads to their gradual demise? As this book will argue, three critical factors have determined the overall health of cities - the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce.

Joel Kotkin

#27. He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.
[He that praiseth himself spatteteth himself.]

George Herbert

#28. Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.

George Herbert

#29. He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;

Thomas Hobbes

#30. Oh, blessed are the simple rich, for they inherit the earth!

F Scott Fitzgerald

#31. No, not Jove
Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.

Robert Herrick