Famous Quotes a399-a401

a399: To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
- Pope.

a400: The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly defend it.
- Colton.

a401: When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
- Haliburton.

Famous Quotes a372-a374

a372: We are ne'er like angels 'till our passion dies.
- Dekker.

a373: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Pope.

a374: Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
- EPh.iv 26.

Famous Quotes a307-a309

a307: Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise.
By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?
Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
- Pope.

a308: The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the better return to thought, and to itself.
- Phaedrus.

a309: I am one,
Who finds within me a nobility
That spurns the idle prating of the great,
And their mean boast of what their fathers were,
While they themselves are fools effeminate.
The scorn of all who know the worth of mind and virtue.
- Percival.