Banish Quotes

109 Banish quotes by 96 unique authors

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is… — Seneca the Younger
I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull… — Joyce Tenneson
Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you. — Alfred Noyes
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and… — Joseph Joubert
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not… — Seneca the Younger
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the… — Plato
Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no… — Shantideva
[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by… — James Madison
Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will. — Phyllis George
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't… — Kurt Vonnegut
I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear,… — Mat Johnson
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and… — Horace
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. — Mark Twain
Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home. — William Carlos Williams
There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe… — Vincent Van Gogh
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good.… — Carter G. Woodson
Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source. — Euripides
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done… — Mahatma Gandhi
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of… — David O. McKay
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and… — Agnes Repplier
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how… — Arthur Schopenhauer
You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'?… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you… — Robert Green Ingersoll
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. — John Ruskin

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