Top 85 Robert South Quotes
#1. He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.
Robert South
#2. An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Robert South
#3. Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Robert South
#4. There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.
Robert South
#5. The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Robert South
#6. Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.
Robert Harling
#7. An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
Robert South
#8. All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.
Robert E.Lee
#11. And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#12. It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot.
Robert E. Howard
#13. Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
Robert Dallek
#14. Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
Robert South
#15. The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Robert South
#17. Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Robert South
#18. Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
Robert South
#19. After years of infertility tests, the best decision we ever made was to adopt, and in 1987, we were bestowed a three-month-old baby girl from an island off the south coast of Korea called Cheju Island.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#20. A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.
Robert South
#21. Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in prison in anticipation that it would help him lead the whole of South Africa.
Robert Lane Greene
#22. The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
Robert Dale Owen
#24. It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized ... The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.
Larry Niven
#25. What's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.
Robert Dallek
#26. He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.
Robert South
#27. It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
Robert South
#28. God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
Robert South
#29. He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.
Robert South
#30. If I were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities, I'm never bored. I would also say New York for the breathtaking skyline formed by the buildings and the fast pace of the city, whatever the time of day.
Robert Pattinson
#31. Westmoreland recognized that the only way to seal South Vietnam's eight hundred-mile western border was to shut down the infiltration routes.
Robert D. Sander
#32. Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South
#33. Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Robert South
#34. The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
Robert South
#35. It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Robert South
#36. Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!
Robert South
#37. Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Robert South
#38. Julia could form no opinion of Robert, the bespectacled middle child, for he passed the entire journey with his nose stuck in a book, returning only monosyllabic answers to any questions put to him
Sheri Cobb South
#39. Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert South
#40. Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one.
Robert Peary
#41. In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Robert South
#42. In London, Washington, and Paris people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.
Robert Zoellick
#43. No man's religion ever survives his morals.
Robert South
#44. My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
Robert Woodrow Wilson
#45. Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? ... What is lacking now are goods on the shelves-that is all.
Robert Mugabe
#46. I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneuil Hall, Boston, beneath a vast painting of Daniel Webster debating the preservation of the Union with Robert Hayne of South Carolina, before the Civil War.
Nigel Hamilton
#47. Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
Robert South
#48. God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
Robert South
#49. By no means was crazy unique to the South,but it sure did love to parade it around on the front porch, give it a drink and welcome the world to stare.
Robert Reeves
#50. I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an island group not too far from Tahiti, and I think, Wouldn't that be great? I have such a fascination with history and especially history in my own country.
Robert Plant
#51. Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people found a way to survive, life went on, and economic activity eventually resumed after the adoption of a 'reformed' or foreign medium of exchange.
Robert Higgs
#52. Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert South
#53. I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come from islands within those organizations, islands of people with integrity who want to do something.
Karl-Henrik Robert
#54. Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Robert South
#55. You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.
Robert Duvall
#56. The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches.
-Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page 24
Robert R. Mitchell
#57. Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.
Robert Duvall
#59. Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
Robert South
#60. Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Robert South
#61. Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
Robert Penn Warren
#62. The richest fuckin' people in the richest country in the world - you gonna tell them some little guy in a hole in South America can have something they can't? Like shit, man. If the little guy in the hole can be a revolutionary, they can be revolutionaries too.
Robert Stone
#63. I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.
Robert Pattinson
#64. The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.
Robert Bridges
#65. A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.
Robert Jenkins
#66. Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.
Robert South
#67. In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes.
Robert St. John
#68. Take the most dangerous power in the South China Sea, China. While the century of humiliation at the hands of the Western powers "is a period etched in acid on the pages of Chinese student textbooks today,
Robert D. Kaplan
#69. They crossed the Mondego and Dao rivers to Viseu and headed south to Coimbra and Leiria.
Robert Wilson
#70. South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won't even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he's a foreigner
Robert Mugabe
#71. There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.
Robert E.Lee
#72. Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Robert South
#73. The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.
Robert South
#74. For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.
Robert South
#75. Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Robert South
#76. The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#77. He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
Robert South
#78. If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Robert South
#80. It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.
Robert South
#81. I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
Robert E.Lee
#82. I am just going outside and may be some time. Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.
Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates
#83. Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South
#84. The eternal silence of the great white desert. Cloudy columns of snow drift advancing from the south, pale yellow wraiths, heralding the coming storm, blotting out one by one the sharp-cut lines of the land.
Robert Falcon Scott
#85. A Short Southern Screw? So I was right. You're craving something south ot the Mason-Dixon Line."
He moved closer, crowding her even though there was still a good twelve inches between them.
"I can assure you, though, I'm a man who isn't short in any sense of the word.
Katee Robert
