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World Quotes - Page 53

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 393, 1895.

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.288, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.

William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.254

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.15

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

"Esoteric Mind Power". Book by V. A. Howard, 1973.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.292, Pan Macmillan