Boards Quote by David Brainerd Download Open image “I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.” — David Brainerd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boards Marriage Poor Scarce Wife
In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country… — Francis Lockier Copy Share Image
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country. — Reginald Maudling Copy Share Image
“Adieu, my ladies. If you ever venture to Scotland…leave the husbands at home. (Braden)” — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You know what they say: All Welshmen sing. All Scots are thrifty. All Englishmen have stiff upper lips. And all Irishmen write plays.” — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
“Friday, April 2. In the afternoon I felt, in secret prayer, much resigned, calm, and serene. What are all the storms of this lower… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed;… — David Brainerd Copy Share
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
God designs that those whom He sanctifies...shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God;… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share
Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what… — Peyton Manning Copy Share Image
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to the Constitution - to protect it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath that I kept, that James Clapper and former NSA director Keith Alexander did not. You raise your hand and you take… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share
Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across… — Yana Toboso Copy Share Image
