Earle Birney famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

  • Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

  • 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.

  • On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

  • Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

  • I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

  • Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

  • Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

  • I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.

  • But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.

  • Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.