Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
WALTER BAGEHOT Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink...
WALTER BAGEHOT The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...
WALTER BAGEHOT All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only...
WALTER BAGEHOT Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, ...
WALTER BAGEHOT A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
WALTER BAGEHOT The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a f...
WALTER BAGEHOT Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not loo...
WALTER BAGEHOT A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
WALTER BAGEHOT An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
WALTER BAGEHOT A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level ...
WALTER BAGEHOT The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be con...
WALTER BAGEHOT The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The m...
WALTER BAGEHOT Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing int...
WALTER BAGEHOT The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at fi...
WALTER BAGEHOT Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
WALTER BAGEHOT Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has n...
WALTER BAGEHOT Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do...
WALTER BAGEHOT The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession:...
WALTER BAGEHOT A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
WALTER BAGEHOT When great questions end, little parties begin.
WALTER BAGEHOT A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
WALTER BAGEHOT A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being ...
WALTER BAGEHOT War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminar...
WALTER BAGEHOT Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of t...
WALTER BAGEHOT So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign...
WALTER BAGEHOT What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
WALTER BAGEHOT Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
WALTER BAGEHOT We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
WALTER BAGEHOT An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtu...
WALTER BAGEHOT One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
WALTER BAGEHOT History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost ...
WALTER BAGEHOT Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink...
WALTER BAGEHOT In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the o...
WALTER BAGEHOT It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are gov...
WALTER BAGEHOT The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as ...
WALTER BAGEHOT Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell ho...
WALTER BAGEHOT A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or off...
WALTER BAGEHOT Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
WALTER BAGEHOT Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
WALTER BAGEHOT The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...
WALTER BAGEHOT The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
WALTER BAGEHOT A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
WALTER BAGEHOT Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to thi...
WALTER BAGEHOT It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
WALTER BAGEHOT The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
WALTER BAGEHOT A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House ...
WALTER BAGEHOT The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
WALTER BAGEHOT An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
WALTER BAGEHOT The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes...
WALTER BAGEHOT Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in par...
WALTER BAGEHOT Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do...
WALTER BAGEHOT An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
WALTER BAGEHOT An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
WALTER BAGEHOT Speak of the gods as they are.
WALTER BAGEHOT The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like th...
WALTER BAGEHOT A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
WALTER BAGEHOT The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
WALTER BAGEHOT The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
WALTER BAGEHOT The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
WALTER BAGEHOT The greatest mistake is trying to be m ore agreeable than you can be.
WALTER BAGEHOT A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the g...
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next...
WALTER BAGEHOT Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your ne...
WALTER BAGEHOT Money is economic power
WALTER BAGEHOT The soldier—that is, the great soldier—of to-day is not a romantic animal, dashing at forlorn ho...
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature. It is not enough to have oppor...
WALTER BAGEHOT The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people say you can not do.
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation
WALTER BAGEHOT Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevai...
WALTER BAGEHOT It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.
WALTER BAGEHOT Of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
WALTER BAGEHOT The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition ...
WALTER BAGEHOT Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutio...
WALTER BAGEHOT Life is a school of probability
WALTER BAGEHOT So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even ...
WALTER BAGEHOT The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be
WALTER BAGEHOT The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything
WALTER BAGEHOT It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations
WALTER BAGEHOT I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing G...
WALTER BAGEHOT The real essence of work is concentrated energy
WALTER BAGEHOT A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault
WALTER BAGEHOT Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind
WALTER BAGEHOT The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
WALTER BAGEHOT Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
WALTER CRONKITE I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center&#...
WALTER O'BRIEN Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poure...
WALTER BECKER There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that ...
WALTER BECKER We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet hav...
WALTER BECKER All our wives are experimental psychologists.
WALTER BECKER If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I...
WALTER BECKER I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the gr...
WALTER BECKER From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show ...
WALTER BECKER That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid...
WALTER BECKER You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER '8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause...
WALTER ANNENBERG I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
WALTER ANNENBERG I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
WALTER ANNENBERG Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minu...
WALTER ANNENBERG God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
WALTER ANNENBERG You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
WALTER ANNENBERG What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
WALTER ANNENBERG The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energi...
WALTER ANNENBERG Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
WALTER ANNENBERG I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
WALTER ANNENBERG Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
WALTER ANNENBERG Accomplish something every day of your life.
WALTER ANNENBERG People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
WALTER ANNENBERG The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
WALTER ANNENBERG In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
WALTER ANNENBERG Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
WALTER ANNENBERG My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
WALTER ANNENBERG Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually en...
WALTER ANNENBERG Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable late...
WALTER ANNENBERG Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
WALTER ANNENBERG The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
WALTER ANNENBERG I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f...
WALTER ANDERSON Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
WALTER ANDERSON We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, ne...
WALTER ANDERSON I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.
WALTER ALSTON I put myself through college playing pool.
WALTER ALSTON I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
WALTER ALSTON The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all condi...
WALTER ALSTON I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
WALTER ALSTON I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or ho...
WALTER ALSTON I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; ...
ULRICH WALTER Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I...
ULRICH WALTER Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
WALTER WRISTON She's been on more laps than a napkin.
WALTER WINCHELL Nothing recedes like success.
WALTER WINCHELL Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
WALTER WINCHELL Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
WALTER WINCHELL The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
WALTER WINCHELL The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
WALTER WINCHELL I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
WALTER WINCHELL What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of...
WALTER WASHINGTON Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people wor...
WALTER WASHINGTON I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
WALTER WAGER I always liked spy stories.
WALTER WAGER I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
WALTER WAGER In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
WALTER WAGER I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
WALTER WAGER The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, a...
WALTER ULBRICHT May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.
WALTER ULBRICHT The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize pr...
WALTER ULBRICHT The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine...
WALTER ULBRICHT The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the fe...
WALTER ULBRICHT When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its det...
WALTER ULBRICHT The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democrati...
WALTER ULBRICHT In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
WALTER ULBRICHT The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individuall...
WALTER ULBRICHT Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan ...
WALTER ULBRICHT The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a f...
WALTER ULBRICHT The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the vict...
WALTER ULBRICHT Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for pe...
WALTER ULBRICHT This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
WALTER ULBRICHT It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
WALTER ULBRICHT Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obs...
WALTER ULBRICHT Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
WALTER ULBRICHT The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in ...
WALTER SMITH There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
WALTER SMITH From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football ...
WALTER SMITH Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
WALTER SMITH I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attent...
WALTER SMITH If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and mana...
WALTER SMITH Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I...
WALTER SMITH Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
WALTER SMITH The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
WALTER SCOTT A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
WALTER SCOTT Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...
WALTER SCOTT Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
WALTER SCOTT