You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may read more
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
This administration has broken faith with the people of America.
They have squandered the immense good will extended by other
read more
This administration has broken faith with the people of America.
They have squandered the immense good will extended by other
nations.
O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
read more
O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his read more
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Power is not alluring to pure minds
Power is not alluring to pure minds
Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
read more
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
- Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),