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Sir John Denham

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Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
SIR JOHN DENHAM We are never like angels till our passion dies.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
SIR JOHN DENHAM I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted ...
SIR JOHN DENHAM You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt. [Fr., Vous...
SIR JOHN DENHAM Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.
SIR JOHN DENHAM 'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; ...
SIR JOHN DENHAM Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.
SIR JOHN DENHAM O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Though de...
SIR JOHN DENHAM People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Nothing happens until something moves.
SIR JOHN DENHAM Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon...
SIR JOHN DENHAM Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
SIR JOHN DENHAM It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter ...
JOHN DENHAM Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
JOHN DENHAM Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fa...
JEFF DENHAM Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other ...
JEFF DENHAM The response has been overwhelmingly positive.
BOB DENHAM I know that John Allison has mentioned he has talked to other banks about this.
BOB DENHAM We are a Southeast regional bank, yet we have heard from people in California, New Mexico, Michigan,...
BOB DENHAM We were aghast at that decision. When you use eminent domain for private use, you are abusing indivi...
BOB DENHAM What BB&T is against is using eminent domain for private development of private property. That's the...
BOB DENHAM I had plenty of worries until we got to the front. He hasn't got all the pats on the back he deserve...
ALLAN DENHAM I don't think this horse gets the recognition he serves. He has an amazing will-to-win.
ALLAN DENHAM They know we?re a dominant team in the Big East. They knew a win against Connecticut would do a lot ...
DENHAM BROWN If it is such a great low-cost insurance program, it should be expanded to all parts of California,
JEFF DENHAM You might not know that you've had something stolen from you until days or weeks after the fact,
JEFF DENHAM This reporting season is very variable. Some of the results have been truly appalling and some have ...
SIMON DENHAM It is a very sad situation. But it's simply a case of the parking officer not noticing.
PAUL DENHAM There's very little keeping up with the Joneses and it helps you instill different values in your ch...
DELISE DENHAM Kindergartners are aware the mill has moved. (My 6-year-old daughter) told me the other day there's ...
DELISE DENHAM They realize how remote and cold it is and they chicken out and they move.
DELISE DENHAM I didn't get married to be a single parent.
DELISE DENHAM As far as we could tell, the face of the revolution was a sea of embroidering women, patiently waiti...
DIANA DENHAM We seniors took it upon ourselves to lock him up and not let him get started.
DENHAM BROWN They can keep their heads up because they took the No. 1 team in the country down to the wire.
DENHAM BROWN A loss to anybody would really set us off track of winning the Big East and being the No. 1 seed in ...
DENHAM BROWN We are a very talented team, and depth is taken into consideration with Coach on the way we play.
DENHAM BROWN It works in our favor.
DENHAM BROWN Rashad and I saw early on what McGrath was capable of. So we took it upon ourselves to lock him up. ...
DENHAM BROWN On good teams, seniors need to lead. Maybe lead us all the way to the NCAA Final Four. We've been th...
DENHAM BROWN We had to regroup as a team. We knew that we played a lousy half in our eyes and we had to do someth...
DENHAM BROWN I think it's basketball. These refs are trying to protect players from doing something they will reg...
DENHAM BROWN We want to make sure that small counties understand that if they take a high profile case like this ...
JEFF DENHAM We just keep shooting ourselves in the foot. There's no excuse. We have a pitcher who threw a good g...
MALLORY DENHAM We've got speed on the bases with Englert leading off.
MALLORY DENHAM I don't know that you have the votes here today.
JEFF DENHAM Low-cost insurance would be beneficial in my district.
JEFF DENHAM State employees and other Californians are facing tough times right now, ... We've seen state budget...
JEFF DENHAM To spend more money on an outdated 150-year-old-prison is ludicrous, ... We cannot allow out-of-cont...
JEFF DENHAM the governor and Legislature to look for other alternatives to this mess - the time has come to deal...
JEFF DENHAM I still got a son and I thank God for that.
PATSY DENHAM Our local laws officer checked and wrote out the ticket at the rear of the vehicle and placed the ti...
PAUL DENHAM We realized we will need to raise additional sums of money. We're going to be reaching out in the co...
ROBERT DENHAM A Norman Rockwell kind of town.
TONI DENHAM Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have ever...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debau...
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
SIR JOHN EGAN Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not pl...
SIR JOHN HARVEY What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
SIR JOHN BOWRING We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer an...
SIR JOHN ELIOT Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckl...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedo...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
SIR JOHN DAVIES 'Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.'
SIR JOHN MORTIMER Secrecy is the badge of fraud.
SIR JOHN CHADWICK Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
SIR JOHN HARVEY You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the fi...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might g...
SIR JOHN BOWRING Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of w...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL Deeds are males, words females are.
SIR JOHN DAVIES Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON Best fishing in troubled waters.
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmas...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the ligh...
SIR JOHN SUCKLING The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different.'
SIR JOHN TEMPLETON For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
SIR JOHN DAVIES Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
SIR JOHN MORTIMER The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.
SIR JOHN HOLT Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really sufferin...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
SIR JOHN POWELL Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Much like a subtle spider, which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide: If aught...
SIR JOHN DAVIES A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- D...
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring, He that made it did refu...
SIR JOHN DAVIES The only real talent Miss Day possesses is that of being absolutely sanitary: her personality untouc...
SIR JOHN SIMON Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
SIR JOHN SIMON Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world (The Relapse)
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Sandy Dennis has balanced her postnasal condition with something like prefrontal lobotomy, so that w...
SIR JOHN SIMON Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squee...
SIR JOHN SIMON Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.
SIR JOHN SIMON 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to th...
SIR JOHN SUCKLING Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a l...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK Moche Crye and no Wull.
SIR JOHN FORTESCUE Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho, And ne'er be seen againe.
SIR JOHN BERKENHEAD The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer show...
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
SIR JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD The people would rather have John A. drunk than Brown sober
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD The laboratory is the highest containment laboratory that you can make and, from that point of view,...
DR. SIR JOHN SKEHEL We started the whole network in 1947 from this laboratory on behalf of the WHO, so the World Influen...
DR. SIR JOHN SKEHEL Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego li...
SIR WILLIAM There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishe...
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world command...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
SIR HENRY WOTTON Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and deter...
SIR THOMAS TREVES The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
SIR MAX BEERBOHM Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.
SIR EDWARD HOBY All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
SIR WILLIAM JONES When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
SIR RICHARD STEELE The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may...
SIR RICHARD STEELE A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin be...
SIR SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtu...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
SIR RONALD MASON Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
SIR HUGH WALPOLE If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to tho...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
SIR HENEAGE OGILVIE Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profe...
SIR THEODORE MARTIN