Censure Quote by Baltasar Gracian Download Open image “Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.” — Baltasar Gracian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Censure Highest Lightning Mountain Strikes
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“I felt like the personification of a storm cloud: a mountainous cumulonimbus thunderhead stretching up into the dark stratosphere, churning with volatile currents, threatening… — Kenneth C. Johnson Copy Share Image
And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over.… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. — Horace Copy Share Image
Lightning sometimes shocks people because it just doesn't know how to conduct itself. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.” — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"? — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Assuming that two-thirds of the Senate will not vote to remove the president, what is the alternative? I think we need to explore that… — Thad Cochran Copy Share Image
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
