John Shebbeare quotes

“Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.”
-- John Shebbeare

#Time Quotes #War Quotes #Trade Quotes

“I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”, p.11

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

“It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.”

“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”

“The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...”

“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”

“This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.”

“Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.”

“I have had no discussions for [Brad] Marchand and I have no plans to trade him.”