Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Ceremony Copy Share Image
The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Breaths Copy Share Image
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Colleges and universities Copy Share Image
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Freedom Copy Share Image
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Freedom Copy Share Image
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Cruelty Copy Share Image
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Common Copy Share Image
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Funny Copy Share Image
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Communication Copy Share Image
The past is the best way to suppose what may come. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Best way Copy Share Image
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Littles Copy Share Image
Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Business Copy Share Image
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Art Copy Share Image
