1st Quotes & Sayings

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. That is our object, and we shall pursue it relentlessly. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

History is a record of exploded ideas. — John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet. — Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever. — Nancy Garden

That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another's labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public. — Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough

I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the 2nd, who then hit puberty like a plane crash and grew into a gorilla who bullied me when he was in the 4th year and I was in the 5th. That's Karma. — Simon Pegg

The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt. — Robert Cecil, 1st Earl Of Salisbury

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. — Bram Stoker

Words, however, are things. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army. — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Common sense is in spite of, not because of age. — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn. — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the other's skin as a hat within the year. — Warren Ellis

Let me here add a word of Christian counsel. To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made. Neither beauty, nor age, nor money, nor mental powers, should be that which prompt the decision; but 1st, Much waiting upon God for guidance should be used; 2nd, A hearty purpose, to be willing to be guided by Him should be aimed after; 3rd, True godliness without a shadow of doubt, should be the first and absolutely needful qualification, to a Christian, with regard to a companion for life. In addition to this, however, it ought to be, at the same time, calmly and patiently weighed, whether, in other respects, there is a suitableness. For — George Muller

The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite. — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd. — Jay Woodman

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

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused. — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice. — William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them. — William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth. — Charles Montagu, 1st Earl Of Halifax

The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to submit to it than ever they were, or perhaps ever will be again.97. This is therefore the proper and critical time to reform the American governments upon a general, constitutional, firm, and durable plan; and if it is not done now, it will probably every day grow more difficult, till at last it becomes impracticable. — Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet

In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure. — Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the unforgettable Marquis de Lafayette, there would have been no French proclamation of The Rights of Man. Without his brilliant negotiation of the Louisiana treaty, there would be no United States of America. Without Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, there would have been no Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, and no basis for the most precious clause of our most prized element of our imperishable Bill of Rights - the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. — Christopher Hitchens

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A man of the utmost insignificance. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine ... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine. — Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works. — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

The aeroplane will never fly. — Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane

If you get to the top on your own, who'll take the picture? — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation ... I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit. — Obie Trice

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

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. — William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one. — John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong. — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels. — John Shelby Spong

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Nothing ages like laziness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... not looking for flaws, but for potential. — Ellen Goodman

There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace of love, and not the uneasy equilibrium of fear-until we recognize the place of animals in the scheme of things and treat them accordingly. — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires. — William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

Keep advertising and advertising will keep you. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader! — Tess Gerritsen

There is a story I always tell my students ... when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn't speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word "exit" which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :"No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success — Pablo

Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

I have lately obtained the opinion of a number of Chief Constables, who declare with almost complete unanimity that the recent great increase in juvenile delinquency is, to a considerable extent, due to demoralising cinematograph films. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. — Byron White

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter. — Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

No man can delegate, ... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only to make the 3rd person his slave, but also a right to dispose of him as a slave to still other persons. Any contract to do this is necessarily a criminal one ... To call such a contract a "constitution" does not at all lessen its criminality, or add to its validity. — Lysander Spooner

Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Grief alone can teach us what is man. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing. — William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution. — David W. Blight

We should not say how's business, but where is business — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned ... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation ... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa ... nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war! — Bob Marley

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

The best formula for a prayer that gives J.O.Y:
J- 1st, Pray to JESUS
O- 2nd, Pray for OTHERS
Y- 3rd, Pray for YOURSELF
Most people distort the formula by praying selfish prayers for their own personal gains. JYO is not the spelling for joy. In JOY, O comes before Y. It means you pray for OTHERS before YOURSELF. — Israelmore Ayivor