Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
Quote by Walter Savage Landor
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
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Walter Savage Landor Quotes
- Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
- We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
- Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
- We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
- People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
- Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
- Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
- We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
Best Quotes
- Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
- Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
- If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.
- Marriage is not for boys. Marriage is for matured minds who are willing to forgive at all times.
- My trade and art is to live.
- There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
- Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
- Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
- Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
- Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.