99 Quotes by English Proverbs

But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.

Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men by whom he was being stoned: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" And we see the result of this prayer in the case of the Apostle, for Paul, who kept the garments of those who were stoning Stephen, not long after became an apostle by the grace of God, having before been a persecutor.

To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?

It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.

We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?

The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may involve himself in any wrong-doing, even where he may escape notice. For he is guilty in his own eyes before being so in the eyes of others; and the publicity of his crime does not bring him more shame than his own consciousness of it.

Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.