Tokugawa Quotes

#1. Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

#2. Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#3. Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Patience is the key to any battle.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#5. Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Tokugawa Iehiro

#6. If you truly believe that, my lady and queen, then for you it is truth: all the Gods are One God and all the Goddesses one Goddess. But would you presume to declare one truth for all of mankind throughout the world?

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#7. Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.

Mike Barnicle

#8. Necessity
Necessity is the mother of twins.
Congratulations,
Necessity!

Beryl Dov

#9. To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#10. Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Friedrich Schiller

#11. When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#12. Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#13. Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#14. We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.

Joni Mitchell

#15. So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing ...

Shaun Tan

#16. Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

Ang Lee

#17. Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#18. Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#19. Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#20. Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#21. It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#22. Life means that I can live to see tomorrow.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#23. After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

#24. Love must become a practical activity. It should be the meaning and the purpose of our lives

Sunday Adelaja

#25. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

Ieyasu Tokugawa