Top 47 Untried Quotes
#2. And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.
Max Ehrmann
#3. We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Eric Hoffer
#4. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. - G. K. CHESTERTON
Clare De Graaf
#5. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions ... but I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. ...
Jon Meacham
#6. A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. I have an affection for the road ... formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.
Charles Dickens
#8. But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
George Haven Putnam
#9. FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#10. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.
Thomas Jefferson
#11. Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
Joseph Addison
#12. Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new - She parts from love which hath still been true.
Martha Finley
#13. Falling in love is fucking hard on the knees, especially on the untried and unwilling ones.
Elle Aycart
#14. I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.
Roseanne Barr
#15. In reality, to quote G. K. Chesterton, "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."2 Or perhaps it might be more accurately said of our time that Christianity has not been presented and therefore has been left untried.
Skye Jethani
#16. I suppose it is the way with all men and women who reach middle age without the clear perception that life never can be thoroughly joyous: under the vague dullness of the grey hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object, and finds it in the privation of an untried good. Dissatisfaction
George Eliot
#17. Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.
Peter Hoeg
#18. It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
James Russell Lowell
#19. He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names,
For those have serv'd other men, haply may injure by their evils;
Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself,
To win for his individual name some clear praise.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#20. September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That's how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you're tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.
Catherynne M Valente
#21. Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.
Herman Melville
#22. Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#23. Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried.
[Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori
Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]
Horace
#24. We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.
Thomas Jefferson
#25. Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I'd learn. Nothing was going to stop me.
E.R. Braithwaite
#26. In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#27. Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!
Elizabeth Gaskell
#30. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
Herodotus
#32. The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
Michel De Montaigne
#33. Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.
Peter Thiel
#35. No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.
William Mathews
#36. What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
Horace
#37. It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
Francis Bacon
#38. Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try,
And ring suspected vessels ere they buy;
But wives, a random choice, untried they take;
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake;
Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away,
And all the woman glares in open day.
Alexander Pope
#39. Under the vague dullness of the gray hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object and finds it in the privation of an untried good.
George Eliot
#40. It isn't a case of marriage having been tried and found wanting. In this 20th century world, true marriage is deeply wanted, but largely untried.
Richard Lessor
#41. I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#42. Out in the world there was all the untried beckoning enchantments:dancing, sensuous music, merriment
and love.
Anya Seton
#43. We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things ...
Herman Melville
#45. The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
#46. In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.
Elizabeth Goudge
#47. What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried?
Piers Anthony
