Barrels Quote by Henry Ward Beecher Download Open image “A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.” — Henry Ward Beecher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barrels Men Pieces Restraint Self Self restraint
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws. — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities… — Emmanuel des Essarts Copy Share Image
You could pay a fair market price for a barrel of oil and cut 50 cents a barrel or a dollar barrel off what… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil. — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
Muzzle control has to be a religion. You cannot point that weapon at one of your brothers-or yourself. Know where you barrel is at… — Dick Couch Copy Share Image
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the right to… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image