May Quote by Edmund Burke Download Open image “By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.” — Edmund Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare May
When somebody starts going down, rats start leaving the sinking ship. — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
A rotten carcass of a butt, notrigged, Nor tackle, sail, nor mastthe very rats Instinctively have quit it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You saying killing a rat would be murder?" said Raufman. "Yes. Of course." "But it's just - " "Talk to the paw, mister, 'cos… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough. — Joe Cowley Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image