Strokst Quotes & Sayings

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince ... — Edward Gibbon

There are people that say they will do better but they never do better. They have no power in them to do better until they come to Christ. — Billy Graham

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama. — Jane Alexander

No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I've been a poser for f
ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh. — Billy Connolly