Lord Bolingbroke Quotes

#1. LORD BOLINGBROKE, the eighteenth-century political philosopher, said that "history is philosophy teaching by examples." Thucydides is reported to have said much the same thing two thousand years earlier. Jefferson

David McCullough

#2. Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history "philosophy taught with examples.

David McCullough

#3. Anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.

Daisy Goodwin

#4. Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

Leon Kass

#5. Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

Mark Twain

#6. He says not to list the patients we save but the ones we don't kill.

Barbara Wood

#7. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.

Aubrey Thomas De Vere

#8. Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

Sly Stone

#10. Successful people are not without problems. They're simply people who've learned to solve their problems.

Earl Nightingale

#11. Winners have no interest or association in the opinions, actions or affairs of losers.

Jeffrey Fry

#12. The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.
Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.
Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

Stephen Baxter

#13. I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

Marina Abramovic

#14. Don't sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free.

Jenny Lawson

#15. It was you who ended it, Chace. You that dug me out. You that pulled me free. You had help but you did it. That's my last memory of that nightmare. You pulling me free.

Kristen Ashley