Quotes related to Proverbs 25:2
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)
— George W. Bush
Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
— St. Augustine
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
— Mark Twain
Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously, how outrageously a meaning can take up residence in a system without becoming a term in it.
— JM Coetzee
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
— Albert Einstein
Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.
— Paulo Coelho
Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
— Cicero
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
— John Updike
The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.
— AW Pink
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
— Victor Hugo