Top 100 St Edmund Quotes
#1. I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
Edmund Hillary
#2. He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts;
But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who striveth to supresse.
Edmund Spenser
#3. My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
Edmund Hillary
#4. For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
Edmund Spenser
#5. Give us a man of God's own mould
Born to marshall his fellow-men;
One whose fame is not bought and sold
At the stroke of a politician's pen.
Give us the man of thousands ten,
Fit to do as well as to plan;
Give us a rallying-cry, and then
Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#7. The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.
Edmund Morgan
#8. How, then, did Virginia gentlemen persuade the voters to return the right kind of people to the House of Burgesses? How could patricians win in populist politics? The question can lead us again to the paradox which has underlain our story, the union of freedom and slavery in Virginia and America.
Edmund S. Morgan
#9. So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought;
Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
Edmund Spenser
#10. I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
Edmund Burke
#11. In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
Edmund Spenser
#12. Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
Edmund Burke
#13. I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
Edmund Burke
#14. To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Edmund Waller
#15. By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.
Edmund Burke
#16. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.
Edmund Burke
#17. So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Edmund Waller
#18. Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
Edmund Burke
#19. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
Edmund Burke
#20. The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
Edmund Burke
#21. Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.
C.S. Lewis
#22. Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top
Edmund Hillary
#23. I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
Edmund Hillary
#24. As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary Crawford and came to care for Fanny. Dulcie must surely know the novel well, and would understand how such things can happen.
Barbara Pym
#25. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning.
Edmund Burke
#26. The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke
#27. Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
#28. It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
Edmund Husserl
#29. A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
Edmund Burke
#30. To man, that was in th' evening made,
Stars gave the first delight;
Admiring, in the gloomy shade,
Those little drops of light.
Edmund Waller
#31. Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Edmund Wilson
#32. To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
Edmund Burke
#33. Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.
Edmund Burke
#34. I liked the way that repetition wears things smooth, and there was something of the river stone to Iggie's stories.
Edmund De Waal
#35. Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
Edmund Burke
#36. Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
Edmund Waller
#37. Norway ... looked to Roosevelt as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe ... It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king.
Edmund Morris
#38. An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
Edmund Burke
#39. By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
#40. Joy may you have and gentle hearts content
Of your loves couplement:
And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love,
With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
Edmund Spenser
#41. Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
Edmund Burke
#42. Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.
Edmund Morgan
#43. No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
Edmund Hillary
#44. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
Edmund Waller
#45. To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
Edmund Husserl
#46. A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies
Edmund Randolph
#47. There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth.
Edmund Burke
#48. Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem,
Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield:
The worth of all men by their end esteem,
And then praise, or due reproach them yield.
Edmund Spenser
#49. My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Edmund Spenser
#50. The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
#51. No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.
Edmund Spenser
#52. Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Edmund Burke
#53. Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:
"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"
This also became Conrad's epitaph.
Joseph Conrad
#54. For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
Edmund Spenser
#55. In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon.
Edmund White
#56. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Blake
#57. There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.
Edmund Phelps
#58. There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
Edmund Burke
#59. It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.
Edmund Ruffin
#60. It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.
Edmund Burke
#61. Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,
Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
Thought
Edmund Spenser
#62. In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
Edmund Burke
#63. Aye me, how many perils do enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall?
Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold,
And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
Edmund Spenser
#64. We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.
Edmund Gibson
#65. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
#68. All that in this world is great or gay,
Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
Edmund Spenser
#69. You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
Edmund S. Muskie
#70. Entrepreneurs' willingness to innovate or just to invest - and thus create new jobs - is driven by their 'animal spirits,' as they decide whether to leap into the void.
Edmund Phelps
#71. Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.
Edmund Burke
#72. Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
Edmund Burke
#73. I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
Edmund White
#74. The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Edmund Wilson
#75. In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
Edmund Phelps
#76. That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads."
"That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.
C.S. Lewis
#77. Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name."
"I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.
Edmund Crispin
#78. If I accepted, Edmund would be our vampire servant." "Come to think of it, that sounds all kinds-a classy. He could clean our toilets. See you soon, babe.
Faith Hunter
#80. Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
Edmund Burke
#81. New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
Edmund White
#82. The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#83. I am not perfectly certain I believe in marriage. Why have just one bonbon when you can have the box?
Cassandra Clare
#84. Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Edmund Burke
#85. I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others
Edmund Burke
#86. Most of the members are positively corrupt, and the others are really singularly incompetent.
Edmund Morris
#87. To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.
Edmund Burke
#89. All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
Edmund Burke
#90. Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.
Edmund Vance Cooke
#91. There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps
#92. If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.
Edmund White
#93. He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
#94. You are the Perfect Young Man: honest, clean, virile.
Edmund White
#95. The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.
Edmund Burke
#96. The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.
Edmund A. Opitz
#97. A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.
Edmund Phelps
#98. There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
Edmund Burke
#99. Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.
Edmund White
#100. The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.
Edmund Gosse
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