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Augustus Inspirational Quotes (152)

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Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
Augustus William Hare
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Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm secondly that a negative quantity has no square root thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference of a circle is to the diameter.
Augustus De Morgan
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
Augustus Hare
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The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.
Augustus Toplady
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Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor' whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.
Augustus Toplady
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But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.
Augustus De Morgan
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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
Augustus De Morgan
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Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
Augustus William Hare
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
Augustus
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Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
Augustus William Hare
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When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
Augustus William Hare
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Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
Augustus Hare
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Language cannot describe the scene that followed the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights and therefore I shall not attempt it.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
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I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
Augustus William Hare
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Science sees signs Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
Augustus William Hare
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How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
Augustus William Hare
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The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away so more blood must be shed to renew it.
Augustus William Hare
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The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.
Augustus De Morgan
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My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.
Seimone Augustus
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Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization.
Joel Augustus Rogers
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As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.
Augustus De Morgan
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Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Augustus Hare
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I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.
Augustus William Hare
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