Edward Gibbon quote: "Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON

It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ...
EDWARD GIBBON

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th...
EDWARD GIBBON

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d...
EDWARD GIBBON

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
EDWARD GIBBON

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
EDWARD GIBBON

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
EDWARD GIBBON

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
EDWARD GIBBON

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the sub...
EDWARD GIBBON

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
EDWARD GIBBON

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
EDWARD GIBBON

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
EDWARD GIBBON

Style is the image of character.
EDWARD GIBBON

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned langua...
EDWARD GIBBON

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
EDWARD GIBBON

I was never less alone than when by myself.
EDWARD GIBBON

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
EDWARD GIBBON

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a...
EDWARD GIBBON

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
EDWARD GIBBON

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every posit...
EDWARD GIBBON

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
EDWARD GIBBON

...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on the...
EDWARD GIBBON

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
EDWARD GIBBON

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by...
EDWARD GIBBON

Gratitude is expensive.
EDWARD GIBBON

The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history...
EDWARD GIBBON

The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
EDWARD GIBBON

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empir...
EDWARD GIBBON

My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
EDWARD GIBBON

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
EDWARD GIBBON

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominate...
EDWARD GIBBON

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
EDWARD GIBBON

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
EDWARD GIBBON

Amiable weakness of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON

Revenge is profitable.
EDWARD GIBBON

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
EDWARD GIBBON

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
EDWARD GIBBON

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned...
EDWARD GIBBON

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it...
EDWARD GIBBON

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers;...
EDWARD GIBBON

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
EDWARD GIBBON

We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.
EDWARD GIBBON

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
EDWARD GIBBON

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive
EDWARD GIBBON

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
EDWARD GIBBON

In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON

... as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their...
EDWARD GIBBON

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the begin...
EDWARD GIBBON

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of ...
EDWARD GIBBON

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused
EDWARD GIBBON

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their ...
EDWARD GIBBON

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON

Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a priso...
EDWARD GIBBON

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators
EDWARD GIBBON

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
EDWARD GIBBON

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empire...
EDWARD GIBBON

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way o...
EDWARD GIBBON

Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.
EDWARD GIBBON

The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of ...
EDWARD GIBBON

In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the ...
EDWARD GIBBON

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected int...
EDWARD GIBBON

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers;...
EDWARD GIBBON

Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
EDWARD GIBBON

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters...
EDWARD GIBBON

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the begin...
EDWARD GIBBON

The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, a...
EDWARD GIBBON

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius
EDWARD GIBBON

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which h...
EDWARD GIBBON

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
EDWARD GIBBON

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers...
EDWARD GIBBON

What's wrong with gossip? We all live on it, but we deny it; we're hypocrites
RONA GIBBON

Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by se...
JOHN GIBBON

Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the I...
JOHN GIBBON

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict...
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook,...
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and le...
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD

The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD

Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea...
EDWARD HOPPER

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...
EDWARD HOPPER

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER

More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
EDWARD BOND

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l...
EDWARD LEAR

The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT

I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG

All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE

Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG

The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG

Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG

One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN

I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH

The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK

Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK

It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG

When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
EDWARD YOUNG

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN

Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG

And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ...
EDWARD FLAHERTY

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT

For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY

كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از...
EDWARD SAID

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT

A God all mercy is a God unjust.
EDWARD YOUNG

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei...
EDWARD VARESE

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c...
EDWARD RUSCHA

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac...
EDWARD FITZGERALD

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG

The man that makes a character, makes foes.
EDWARD YOUNG

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

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Edward Gibbon

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

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