Richard Quotes

They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.

Little rogues easily become great ones.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

He that would travel much, should eat little.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

None are deceived but they that confide.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

Uncertain way of gain. But I am inSo far in blood that sin will pluck on sin.Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

Entrepreneur, don't just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.

Entrepreneur, either your brand is distinct or your brand is distant.

Entrepreneur, your either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

Did you get notes for me?""No", Ronan replied, "I thought you were dead in a ditch.

I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.

Is the undertaker joyous when his turn comes around? All those years holding the door open. To pass through - does it feel like a privileged?

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chestwhere a heart would fit perfectlyand he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place –well then, game over.

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

At this, Gansey rolled over onto his back and folded his hands on his chest. He wore a salmon polo shirt, which, in Blue’s opinion, was far more hellish than anything they’d discussed to this point.

They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?

Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

Republicans don't want to 'save the world'

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective

Perhaps it's impolite to die so flippantly, after all she's done for me.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax

The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command.

Entrepreneur, if your going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

Entrepreneur, let your global & generational vision start locally, now.

With the world now a global village, your vision has to transcend different races and faces in different places around the world.

What a tribute this is to art

whispers are often thunderous