Apophthegms Quotes & Sayings

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one. — Francis Bacon

All right. Since the world is about to end, why not give an impossible jailbreak one last try? — Brandon Mull

It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, and to see the symptoms of vitality disappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption. — Zachary Macaulay

In adversity remember to keep an even mind. — Horace

I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion. — Gonjasufi

Coincidence is the science of the true believer. — Chet Raymo

Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast ... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic ... So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space ... — Edward Abbey

My strength is in the Lord. In him, I breathe, live and move. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity. — William Lyon Mackenzie King