Top 20 Robert Cecil Quotes
#1. A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Robert Cecil
#2. Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs.
Marlena De Blasi
#3. Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Robert Cecil
#4. Industry cannot flow unless cpaital is confident, and capital will not be confident as long as it fears that Parliament will meddle with it and walk off with its profits.
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury
#5. Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil
#8. Opinions upon moral questions are more often the expression of strongly felt expediency than of careful ethical reasoning; and the opinions so formed by one generation become the conscientious convictions or the sacred instincts of the next.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
#9. It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone by than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury
#10. Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.
William Shenstone
#11. Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Robert Cecil
#12. a mothers labor and delivery never ends, and you just have to keep remembering to breathe
Ann Voskamp
#13. I tried to write something about Jesse but couldn't, as her face echoed her father's and the proud palace where the ghosts of our old life dwell.
Patti Smith
#14. If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.
Robert Cecil Martin
#15. They are obviously pirate services. Sure they might be able to survive as small businesses, but it's hard to get advertisers to advertise on a pirate site. It's a hugely fragmented market.
Robert Cecil Martin
#16. Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
Randeep Hooda
#18. The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life.
Ralph Marston
#19. You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
Abraham Flexner
#20. Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
Robert Cecil
