1st Meet Quotes

A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely! ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea? ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts. ~ Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

If you get to the top on your own, who'll take the picture? ~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it. ~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map. ~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility. ~ William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. ~ Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess Of Reading

A man's best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet. ~ Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten ~ George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell

A timid question will always receive a confident answer. ~ Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

Never lose your sense of the superficial. ~ Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions. ~ Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation. ~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer. ~ John Churchill, 1st Duke Of Marlborough

That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you. ~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out,
Showing the unreality of Time. ~ Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree. ~ George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The best motto for a long march is 'Don't grumble. Plug on. ~ Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

My exit is the result of too many entrees. ~ Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

If politicians would think more they would act less. ~ George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy. ~ Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does. ~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason
because it clashes with our own. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon. ~ Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Grief alone can teach us what is man. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

What! All this for a song? ~ William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop. ~ Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that. ~ Francis Norris, 1st Earl Of Berkshire

The deepest rivers make least din. ~ William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

We should not say how's business, but where is business ~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open. ~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature. ~ Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

Knowledge has no value or use for the solitary owner: to be enjoyed it must be communicated ~ Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology. ~ Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. ~ Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general. ~ William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere. ~ Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There is no safer feeling than the comfort of sheltering from life's storms in the harbor of friendship. ~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered. ~ Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear. ~ Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand? ~ George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open. ~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law. ~ John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them. ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Where laws end, tyranny begins. ~ William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Can every anguish calmly bear. ~ Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination. ~ Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

The inevitability of gradualness. ~ Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

A difficulty for every solution. ~ Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

Rank is a great beautifier. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Bright and illustrious illusions! ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war. ~ Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. ~ Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection! ~ Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them. ~ Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine,
Thou wilt not laugh at poets. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will. ~ John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted. ~ Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

History is a record of exploded ideas. ~ John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

God help the patient. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

Revolutions are not made with rosewater. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The food of hope is meditative action. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him. ~ Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You speak
As one who fed on poetry. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton