Newbolt Quotes

#1. As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

Robert Baden-Powell

#2. For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#3. I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.

Lark Voorhies

#4. He felt his mother hadn't prepared him for what it felt like, falling alone. Which

Katherine Boo

#5. To set the cause above renown.

Henry Newbolt

#6. My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

Sydney Schanberg

#7. The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in 'Thou shalt,' meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It

John Steinbeck

#8. Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

Henry Newbolt

#9. To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood ...

Henry Newbolt

#10. I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

Catherine Asaro