Accidents Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as…

— Anonymous

Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.

— Lajos Kossuth

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the…

— Confucius

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole,…

— Plutarch

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“A practical rule: a man which is wise in one area may be silly in others.”

— Albert Camus

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man must become wise at his own expense.

— Michel de Montaigne

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A wise one determines his own fate.

— Janet Morris

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of…

— Samuel Johnson