Thomas Henry Lister quote: "Your advice seems a little ironical."<br /><br />"Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way."

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
LISTER SINCLAIR

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.
JOSEPH LISTER

Prayer is the key to Heaven, but faith unlocks the door.
MOSIE LISTER

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew
LISTER SINCLAIR

This tends to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
JOHN LISTER

I encourage people, don't leave your cat loose and assume it is being taken care of. It will fend fo...
DOUG LISTER

Feral cats are wild and are not taken care of, but outside cats have that same capability.
DOUG LISTER

It becomes a big problem because people see these cats and are more likely to approach them than the...
DOUG LISTER

We are trying to raise awareness. We have been networking with grass-roots organizations across the ...
HILLARY LISTER

We really wanted to come together and get all the folks from these communities talking to each other...
HILLARY LISTER

We have tried every other path and decided something more dramatic and vocal and visible was needed ...
HILLARY LISTER

It's another one off the list and confirms that investors' options have been decreased.
MARK LISTER

In the independent directors' target company statement - which included an independent adviser's rep...
MARK LISTER

The first two years of operations were pretty tough - as they were for much of the commercial proper...
MARK LISTER

On the negative side the outlook was that economic conditions are slowing and there are a few sector...
MARK LISTER

Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax]

Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ....
ANNE LISTER

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and ge...
HENRY THOMAS

I'm not surprised. It's obviously had a chilling effect on free-agent signings. But that's the way i...
HENRY THOMAS

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.
HENRY THOMAS

I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of thes...
HENRY THOMAS

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.
HENRY THOMAS

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz peopl...
HENRY THOMAS

He played like I saw him play in the summer league and the fall league. He was just relaxing and let...
HENRY THOMAS

It's like a monkey off our backs. Our kids play so hard and practice so hard every day, so now that ...
HENRY THOMAS

When we raise these rates, people will use less. That's a goal we want to achieve.
HENRY THOMAS

I think there will be a lot of factors that will go into it, but having a chance to play for a champ...
HENRY THOMAS

I think Converse is betting on it.
HENRY THOMAS

He appeals to corporate America because he does have a clean-cut image. He has no tattoos. At the sa...
HENRY THOMAS

The contract will make him the highest-paid athlete in the history of Converse. One of the things at...
HENRY THOMAS

There were points in time throughout these negotiations that neither one of us was necessarily confi...
HENRY THOMAS

Michael wants to have an adequate amount of time to listen to what all the teams have to offer, and ...
HENRY THOMAS

It's the summer and he's got to go into training camp and play and learn the system. He's confident ...
HENRY THOMAS

I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was ki...
HENRY THOMAS

I can't stay in L.A. too long or it starts to grow on me in a bad way.
HENRY THOMAS

Being a single woman is like going off to war.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don'...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favor...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I think 'Girls' is pretty brilliant.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of t...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I wa...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should lea...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself ...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

My parents have always been very open.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my cl...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

It's human nature to want to be with other people.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie...
TOM LISTER, JR.

The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view ...
ZOE LISTER-JONES

Vince McMahon was a great negotiator.
TOM LISTER, JR.

My pet aphorism suffer fools gladly should be the guide of the Assistant Secretary, who, during the ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more n...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enab...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Veracity is the heart of morality.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow hum...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man's foot long enough to enable hi...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern worl...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The mode...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you h...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an il...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the n...
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us i...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Foll...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enab...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness superven...
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degre...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throw...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly t...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find an...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world b...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game ar...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow hum...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go b...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game ar...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of t...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you h...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow hum...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

If I may paraphrase

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

The publication of the

For these two years I have been gravitating towards

The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and e...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Your advice seems a little ironical."

"Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.

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Your advice seems a little ironical."

"Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.

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Your advice seems a little ironical."

"Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.