Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. – Francis Bacon Category: Boldness
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. – Michel de Montaigne, translated Category: Boldness
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. – Theodore Roosevelt Category: Boldness
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish Category: Boldness
Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure. – George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903 Category: Tea
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. – Khalil Gibran Category: Love
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. – P. J. ORourke Category: good
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. – Bryan Appleyard Category: Modern, Modernism
