Pestilent Quotes

#1. A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#2. I'll make death love me; for I will contend
Even with his pestilent scythe.

William Shakespeare

#3. Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. 'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

J. A. Spender

#5. Fortune, in fact, is a pestilent shrew, and, withal, an inexorable creditor; and though for a time she may be all smiles and courtesies, and indulge us in long credits, yet sooner or later she brings up her arrears with a vengeance, and washes out her scores with our tears.

Washington Irving

#6. Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

Tacitus

#7. I build my life with light, love and loyalty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

Omar Khayyam

#9. I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone.

Ray Lewis

#10. Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.

Terry Kay

#11. The one with karma is known as mortal (jiva) and the one without karma is known as Soul (Self; immortal).

Dada Bhagwan

#12. I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

Audre Lorde

#13. Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. You rely too much on yo rules, Hannah. You use them as a kind of crutch to hold yourself back from new experiences. You've let these rules control everything you do in your life.

Shana Norris