E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax Quotes & Sayings

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

The past is the best way to suppose what may come. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax