Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

Charles Caleb Colton

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Charles Caleb Colton

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

China Mieville

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

Adrienne Rich

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

Gary Zukav

I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I would never have written it without you. (Erin) And I would never have lived without you. (V'Aiden)

Melissa Marr

What would I do without you?" "You'll never find out.

Stephenie Meyer

You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you," he whispered.

Saint Augustine

He who created you without you will not justify you without you.

Saint Augustine

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Zayn Malik

Get on in life because life will get on without you if you don't keep up.

Zayn Malik

Get on with life because life gets on without you.

Bertolt Brecht

One must live well to know what living is.

Gene Simmons

Live well - respire frequently.

George Herbert

With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.

Socrates

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

Socrates

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.