Knowes Quotes

#1. When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.

George Herbert

#2. The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him.

George Herbert

#3. He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.

George Herbert

#4. Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

George Herbert

#5. A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

George Herbert

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

William Shakespeare

#7. The Rich knowes not who is his friend.
[The rich knows not who is his friend.]

George Herbert

#8. The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.

George Herbert

#9. The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.

George Herbert

#10. Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

George Herbert

#11. He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.

George Herbert

#12. In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome.
[In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]

George Herbert

#13. A woman conceales what shee knowes not.

George Herbert

#14. Soviet authorities had long feared copiers. At its most basic, the machine helped spread information, and strict control of information was central to the Communist Party's grip on power. In most offices, photocopy machines were kept under lock and key.

David E. Hoffman

#15. What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

Eve Arnold

#16. WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

Margaret Mead

#17. Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

Pat Barker

#18. Why do people only understand what they want to ...
... instead of what they could or should understand?

Beatrice James

#19. We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.

Yoko Ono

#20. We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me - especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and 'religious' countries.

Richard Rohr