Top 100 Quotes About Baron

#1. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#2. At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury Of Turville

#3. Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#4. A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

Baron De Montesquieu

#5. Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#6. Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.

Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

#7. If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

Baron De Montesquieu

#8. Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

Baron De Montesquieu

#9. The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#10. As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

#11. In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#12. The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Baron De Montesquieu

#13. Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

#14. Bright and illustrious illusions!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#15. Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir

Frank Herbert

#16. Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,
whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,
is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#17. They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#18. Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.

Richard Layard, Baron Layard

#19. Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#20. We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

Baron De Montesquieu

#21. If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#22. There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes

#23. My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.

Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

#24. For those without faith there are no answers, for those with faith there are no questions.

Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

#25. The Baron could see the path ahead of him. One day, a Harkonnen would be Emperor. Not himself, and no spawn of his loins. But a Harkonnen. Not this Rabban he'd summoned, of course. But

Frank Herbert

#26. I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

Edward George, Baron George

#27. It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#28. Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place.

Colette Baron Reid

#29. Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

Baron De Montesquieu

#30. A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#31. The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

Baron De Montesquieu

#32. Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,
prayer.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#33. Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

#34. It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#35. Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#36. The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#37. The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#38. In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

#39. In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#40. I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Baron De Montesquieu

#41. A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#42. The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

Baron De Montesquieu

#43. But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#44. When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person ... there can be no liberty.

Baron De Montesquieu

#45. Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday.

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

#46. What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

John O'Keefe

#47. No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#48. The atheist ... destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

Baron D'Holbach

#49. A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#50. Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#51. Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#52. It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#53. Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

Baron De Montesquieu

#54. Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, "What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?" And I say, "Well, they always usually ask, 'Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?' And it's good to have an answer for that."

Baron Vaughn

#55. Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Baron De Montesquieu

#56. If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#57. It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#58. A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

#59. Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#60. They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#61. We share half our genes with the banana.

Robert May, Baron May Of Oxford

#62. Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

Baron De Montesquieu

#63. That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

#64. Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Baron De Montesquieu

#65. I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#66. The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#67. We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves

Edward George, Baron George

#68. The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.

Baron Davis

#69. Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate
how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#70. Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#71. The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#72. The danger with Margret Thatcher is that when she speaks without thinking she says what she thinks.

Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John Of Fawsley

#73. Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#74. Ah, Hah! But you see, Baron, I know as a Mentat when you will send the executioner. You will hold back just so long as I am useful. To move sooner would be wasteful and I'm yet of much use. I know what it is you learned from that lovely Dune planet - waste not? True, Baron?
-Piter De Vries

Frank Herbert

#75. In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations
fear.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#76. Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse ...

Steve Merrick

#77. Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Baron De Montesquieu

#78. Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Baron De Montesquieu

#79. Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he ... I swear he takes a positive delight in it."
-Baron Vladimir

Frank Herbert

#80. Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#81. The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#82. Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

#83. A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

#84. Nothing ages like laziness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#85. The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#86. Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#87. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

#88. The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#89. Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and I don't like everyone, so I always see concerts as like, I'm going to get punched, I'm going to get elbowed, I'm going to get stepped on, get spilled on, someone's going to hit me with their body odor or something.

Baron Vaughn

#90. There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#91. There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#92. There is no real lasting joy in self-seeking.

Victor Collins, Baron Stonham

#93. I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim

Alec Broers, Baron Broers

#94. To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#95. A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.

Greville Janner, Baron Janner Of Braunstone

#96. Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Baron De Montesquieu

#97. He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#98. War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#99. My hand and pen are not in plight,
As they have been of yore.

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

#100. The inevitability of gradualness.

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

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