Motto Quotes - Page 18

• Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.

  Anthony Trollope

  Rome, Worst, Hearted

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.446

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• Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It's a woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and man's body at stake.'

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Integrity, Men

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!"

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Sleep, Hands, Support

  Last speech to the National Convention, www.bartleby.com. July 26, 1794.

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• On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me today, my school motto: "I will try my outmost". This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.

  Gordon Brown

  School, People, Childhood

  Gordon Brown's First Speech as Prime Minister, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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• No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

  Muriel Spark

  Mind, Opinion, Should

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• Perseverance is my motto.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Perseverance, My Motto

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• Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance.

  Wim Wenders

  Answers, Way, Problem

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• My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Today, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Being Yourself, Finals, Lasts

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8079, Delphi Classics

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• Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Loyalty, Disappointment, Betrayal

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• All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Might, Burden, Conditions

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Experts, Way, Folks

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1000, Simon and Schuster

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• I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

  Ion Keith-Falconer

  Christian, Prayer, Light

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• While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having the government poke into your private life and your bedroom, like in Islamic countries, there are no moral compasses to tell what is right from wrong. The very notion of right and wrong has come under question. The motto is "if it feels good do it". Hedonism rules!

  Ali Sina

  Country, Islamic, Government

  Source: myislam.dk

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• To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.

  Noah Feldman

  School, Years, Trying

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• The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.

  Alexander Lowen

  Successful, Generations, Action

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• If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, 'Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus' [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.

  James G. Frazer

  Hands, Catholic, Magic

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Flower, Writing, Yield

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.4

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• Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

  Roland Barthes

  Writing, Mad, Sane

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• Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

  Michelle Malkin

  Character, White, House

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• Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard it well.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sunshine, Storm, Haste

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• I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day - and when you live day to day, it's hard to talk years.

  Troy Polamalu

  Careers, Years, Growing

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• My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Advice, Chivalry

  "The Lily of the Valley". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1835.

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• The best motto for a long march is 'Don't grumble. Plug on.

  Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet

  Travel, Long, March

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• The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it."

  William C. Brown

  Rebellious, Rich, Stealing

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