Commence Quotes

60 quotes by 55 authors

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West — Horace Greeley
True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel… — Charles Spurgeon
People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have the right to… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best… — Ernestine Rose
The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war. — Roger Sherman
If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you… — Pablo Picasso
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau
Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits? — Thomas Jefferson
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life. — Plato
All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission,… — Lewis Nkosi
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before… — Tom Robbins
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and… — Hosea Ballou
Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that… — Luther Burbank
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended,… — Karl Marx
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. — Albert Einstein
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I… — Henry David Thoreau
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and… — Leonardo da Vinci
There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but… — John Stuart Mill
I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your… — Jean Webster

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