Artist Quote by Henry Austin Dobson

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground,…

— Samuel Johnson

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has…

— Samuel Johnson

The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the…

— Aeschylus

“The wise man … does not need to walk about timidly or cautiously: for he possesses such self-confidence that he does not hesitate to…

— Moses Hadas

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and…

— John Locke

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for…

— Khalil Gibran

“And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. He is someone who raises his fist to…

— David Gemmell

He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.

— William Shakespeare

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

— Lawrence G. Lovasik