You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Their meetings made December June.
Their every parting was to die.
Their meetings made December June.
Their every parting was to die.
There with commutual zeal we both had strove
In acts of dear benevolence and love;
Brothers in read more
There with commutual zeal we both had strove
In acts of dear benevolence and love;
Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.
The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
[Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]
The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
[Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]
By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are
destroyed.
[Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia read more
By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are
destroyed.
[Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae
dilabantur.]
Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom
Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom
Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
- George Colman ("The Younger"),
Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
- George Colman ("The Younger"),
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in read more
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible
struggle.
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and read more
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
