I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't ...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Ma...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all yo...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
THOMAS BEECHAM Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Ma...
THOMAS BEECHAM Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
THOMAS BEECHAM The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
THOMAS BEECHAM Most of them sound like they live on seaweed.
THOMAS BEECHAM All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
THOMAS BEECHAM Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
THOMAS BEECHAM Realize when you are being used & mistreated Don't be blinded by lies , Scared to leave so you stick...
TAWANA BEECHAM No matter what you are going through their is always something to be thankful for in life.- MizLyric...
TAWANA BEECHAM Depression leads into something much serious, Never feel ashamed to get help or talk to someone. t.m...
TAWANA BEECHAM You can't change your past but you are in control of your future & the choices that you make so choo...
TAWANA BEECHAM Depression is a deadly disease that can lead you down a dark lonely road.
TAWANA BEECHAM Never allow a woman to loose interest in you Always let her know how remarkable she is in some type ...
TAWANA BEECHAM #Never be ashamed of your scars They don't dictate who you are It's simply a reflection of your beau...
TAWANA BEECHAM We do what we think we can do. We don’t attempt what we think we are incapable of.
STAN BEECHAM Carpet on Tuesday, freight on Wednesday, Cars on Thursday and open on Friday.
MARTY BEECHAM Everyone has a past You have to know someone to understand them THINK... before you judge from the o...
TAWANA BEECHAM You ever love someone to the point you hate them? 1st sign... time to go!
TAWANA BEECHAM If a man doesn't acknowledge your sincere qualities, he doesn't deserve any part of you.-MizLyrics-
TAWANA BEECHAM Walking away can and never looking back can be the greatest choice ever made. -T.B
TAWANA BEECHAM Don't dwell on the things you can't change or life's Imperfections that have caused you pain T.B
TAWANA BEECHAM Rape victims carry mental scars that can trigger without warning.
TAWANA BEECHAM Everybody desires that special someone who accepts & understands them absolutely! T.B
TAWANA BEECHAM Better is the enemy of best.
STAN BEECHAM Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and deter...
SIR THOMAS TREVES Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain ...
SIR THOMAS WYATT Never despair, keep pushing on!
SIR THOMAS LIPTON Patience, though I have not
The thing that I require,
I must of force, God wot,
Forbear my...
SIR THOMAS WYATT Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the trues...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Life is pure flame.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Chari...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pro...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to depriv...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Death is the cure for all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE And first Satan's endeavours have ever been, and they cease not yet to instill a belief in the minde...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effec...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping m...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is no road or ready way to virtue.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is we that are blind, not fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them...
SIR THOMAS OVERBORE There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only ...
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and es...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE God is like a skilful Geometrician.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary sp...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is b...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table amon...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: I desire to exercise my faith in the...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pr...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident o...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Women do most delight in revenge.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for...
SIR THOMAS MORE For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we...
SIR THOMAS MORE To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot ho...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, i...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Fesaunt excedeth all fowles in sweetnesse and holsomnesse, and is equall to capon in nourishynge.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
SIR THOMAS MORE There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homag...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the ...
SIR THOMAS MORE I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
SIR THOMAS MALORY " i am a man, not a duck, llama, or fish, once a man, always a man"
SIR STUART THOMAS A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
SIR THOMAS MORE They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so m...
SIR THOMAS MORE This hath not offended the king.
SIR THOMAS MORE Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should b...
SIR THOMAS MORE Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known...
SIR THOMAS MORE Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT Then on the grounde Togyder rounde With manye a sadde stroke, They roll and rumble, ...
SIR THOMAS MORE [The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end ...
SIR THOMAS ROE Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.
SIR THOMAS MALORY Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
SIR THOMAS WYATT What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?
SIR THOMAS MALORY And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
SIR THOMAS MALORY For love that time was not as love is nowadays.
SIR THOMAS MALORY Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Continuing a series on God and the human condition: If we...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die: And as gently lay my head ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE And anon there came in a dove at a window, and in her mouth there seemed a little censer of gold, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed!
SIR THOMAS MALORY She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall e...
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.
SIR THOMAS MORE Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
SIR THOMAS MALORY With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insigni...
SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON 'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fe...
SIR THOMAS NOON TALFOURD (TALFORD) 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 Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishe...
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH 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 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 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 If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH 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 Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 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