Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
—Voltaire
Showing posts with label control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label control. Show all posts
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Friday, January 06, 2017
Post #2245
Nothing is harder to govern than man when fortune smiles, nor anything more tractable than he when calamity lays her hands upon him.
—Plutarch
—Plutarch
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Post #1303
Too great haste in paying off an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
—François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
—François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Friday, June 01, 2012
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Post #707
A capital ship for an ocean trip
Was the Walloping Window Blind -
No gale that blew dimayed her crew
Or troubled the Captain's mind.
The man at the wheel was taught to feel
Contempt for the wildest blow.
And it often appeared, when the weather had cleared,
That he'd been in his bunk below.
—Charles Edward Carryl
Was the Walloping Window Blind -
No gale that blew dimayed her crew
Or troubled the Captain's mind.
The man at the wheel was taught to feel
Contempt for the wildest blow.
And it often appeared, when the weather had cleared,
That he'd been in his bunk below.
—Charles Edward Carryl
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Post #680
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of sails and not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of sails and not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Post #241
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
—Jim Bouton
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—Jim Bouton
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Post #240
You can never have a greater or a lesser dominion than that over yourself.
—Leonardo da Vinci
—Leonardo da Vinci
Monday, May 10, 2010
Post #220
The best way to get the better of temptation is just to yield to it.
—Clementina Sterling Graham
—Clementina Sterling Graham
Thursday, February 18, 2010
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
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