Humility is truth.
Quote by Desiderius Erasmus
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Humility is truth.
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Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
- War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
- The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
- If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
- Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
- War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
- Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
- It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
- The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
- Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
- Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Best Quotes
- In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- We come into the world with nothing and the purpose of our lives is to make something out of nothing
- I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
- Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
- Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
- Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
- The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.