Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a...
FRANCIS QUARLES Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
FRANCIS QUARLES Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...
FRANCIS QUARLES If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun...
FRANCIS QUARLES The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten...
FRANCIS QUARLES Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy mo...
FRANCIS QUARLES And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
FRANCIS QUARLES Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bi...
FRANCIS QUARLES If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never spe...
FRANCIS QUARLES Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety...
FRANCIS QUARLES Feast of Luke the Evangelist He is my Altar, I His holy place; I am His guest, and He my living foo...
FRANCIS QUARLES Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaim...
FRANCIS QUARLES While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
FRANCIS QUARLES That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
FRANCIS QUARLES He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
FRANCIS QUARLES A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
FRANCIS QUARLES The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
FRANCIS QUARLES 'Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go, The swing of ...
FRANCIS QUARLES What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.
FRANCIS QUARLES Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, ...
FRANCIS QUARLES Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in ...
FRANCIS QUARLES No cross no crown.
FRANCIS QUARLES Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before; After deliverance b...
FRANCIS QUARLES Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defe...
FRANCIS QUARLES Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable ...
FRANCIS QUARLES If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if th...
FRANCIS QUARLES Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, bot...
FRANCIS QUARLES See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the s...
FRANCIS QUARLES Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, a...
FRANCIS QUARLES And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, ...
FRANCIS QUARLES The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown
FRANCIS QUARLES The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner...
FRANCIS QUARLES Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us
FRANCIS QUARLES My mind's my kingdom.
FRANCIS QUARLES Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent c...
FRANCIS QUARLES My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath man...
FRANCIS QUARLES Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety
FRANCIS QUARLES Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten...
FRANCIS QUARLES The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chambe...
FRANCIS QUARLES He that has no cross will have no crown
FRANCIS QUARLES What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happ...
FRANCIS QUARLES I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
FRANCIS QUARLES He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end
FRANCIS QUARLES Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise
FRANCIS QUARLES The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis false...
FRANCIS QUARLES The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'sat...
FRANCIS QUARLES Feast of Thomas the Apostle Long did I toil and knew no earthly rest, Far did I rove and found no c...
J. QUARLES Corn can't wait for rain. It has to have copious amounts when it's filling out the ears.
ROGER QUARLES Her pinkie took matters into its own, er, pinkie, and moved oh-so-slightly, grazing his skin. His pi...
ANGELA QUARLES He leaned his head against the rock. Christ, when was the last time he’d seen the humor in life? A...
ANGELA QUARLES He dragged his lips up the soft skin of her neck and gently nipped her ear lobe, sipping on the soft...
ANGELA QUARLES She led them to their pallets, again encircled by other pallets. She sat down, sighing at her aching...
ANGELA QUARLES She flapped her hands, anxious energy coursing through her. “How can you be so calm?”
He g...
ANGELA QUARLES Knowing this was the same man from last night now clad again in his hunky knightly armor was a stran...
ANGELA QUARLES Here, sleep with your back against me. I shall protect you better this way.”
She nodded, shu...
ANGELA QUARLES She straightened and crossed her arms. “I can’t sleep with you,” she blurted.
… “As y...
ANGELA QUARLES Wham. She glommed onto him like white plastic on a Stormtrooper, shamelessly pressing against his bo...
ANGELA QUARLES Pilots would get there and would be walking around and people would ask if they could fly someone el...
FRED QUARLES We were signing up about one a minute.
FRED QUARLES General aviation pilots are an untapped national resource.
FRED QUARLES He told me he wants to be able to focus on the season ahead. I think that speaks a lot about the pla...
GEORGE QUARLES He's as good as advertised and as good as anyone we've ever went against in all my years. You don't ...
GEORGE QUARLES That first play of the game gave us a lot of confidence. We just kind of went from there.
GEORGE QUARLES I think what we do best right now is play defense. They're going to get some yards. They're too tale...
GEORGE QUARLES I certainly think our kids are think good things are going to happen when they go out on the field e...
GEORGE QUARLES They've already beaten two of the best teams in that region. They probably can't get any more confid...
GEORGE QUARLES They're a very athletic team. (Running backs) Brad Walker and Ronald Osborne are two very explosive ...
GEORGE QUARLES It was kind of a funny game because of the way we were able to score. The only negative we took out ...
GEORGE QUARLES If somebody would have called and asked my opinion, I would have said, 'Let him play.
GEORGE QUARLES Mike was a great example to all the other athletes.
MARC QUARLES You like to see who has what. This is a good way for the kids to get used to a meet and not just run...
MARC QUARLES If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
 FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
 FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
 FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
 FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
 FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
 FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
 FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
 FRANCIS Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON All beliefs are bald ideas.
FRANCIS PICABIA Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
FRANCIS CHAN Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
FRANCIS BACON No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
FRANCIS BACON Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
FRANCIS BACON Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
FRANCIS BACON The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON