Formerly Quotes

132 quotes by 107 authors

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles… — Giacomo Casanova
It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. — Philibert Joseph Roux
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. — Ovid
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the… — David Hume
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. — Doug Larson
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to… — Oswald Spengler
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a… — Calvin Coolidge
Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance… — Bertrand Russell
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to… — Woody Allen
Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince… — Benjamin Franklin
Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony… — Alexander Fleming
We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win… — Justin Martyr
Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not… — Romain Rolland
OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of… — Ambrose Bierce
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war! — Christian Nestell Bovee
Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids[...]The bundle of bright yellow… — Rosie O'Donnell

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