Vaux Quotes

#1. Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

Robert Winston

#2. My lusts they do me leave,
My fancies all be fled,
And tract of time begins to weave
Grey hairs upon my head.

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

#3. The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#5. The wrinkles in my brow,
The furrows in my face,
Say, limping age will lodge him now
Where youth must give him place.

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

#6. What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#7. Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Taiichi Ohno

#8. It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#9. I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,
habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#10. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#11. Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.

Roland De Vaux

#12. Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#13. I loathe that I did love,
In youth that I thought sweet

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

#14. I start from experience and read ... always between polarities - loud and not-loud, young and old, spring and winter. If I can make black and white behave together instead of shooting at each other only, I feel proud.

Josef Albers

#15. Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

Albert Camus

#16. Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#17. You are always a part of me Dex. You're every part of me. Always have been. Always will be.

Karina Halle

#18. For age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his crutch

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

#19. As ye of clay were cast by kind,
So shall ye waste to dust.

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

#20. Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on.

Haruki Murakami

#21. A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

Tom Robbins

#22. A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#23. I abominate war as Unchristian. I hold it the greatest of human crimes. I deem it to involve all others,
violence, blood, rapine, fraud; everything that can deform the character, alter the nature, and debase the name of man.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#24. There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

#25. My hand and pen are not in plight,
As they have been of yore.

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

#26. War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux