Parleys Quotes & Sayings

O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee. — Lydia Sigourney

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. — Marguerite De Valois

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. — Brit Hume

A City that parlies is half gotten.
[A city that parleys is half gotten.] — George Herbert

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected. — Edgar Lee Masters

When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you. — Marguerite Duras

To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop thinking about what you look like. — Cat Clarke

Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
[Valor that parleys is near yielding.] — George Herbert

I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!' — Jill Scott

War is a racket. It always has been ... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. — Smedley Butler

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. — Aristotle.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.' — Paul Mooney

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest. — Annalee Newitz

No man however great is greater than his people — Chinua Achebe