If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
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Proverb, Latin
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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
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Tradition Quotations Click  A title doesn't mean much. These days, all you need is three box-tops from Kellogg’s and a letter to Tony Blair and they make you a lord.Brocket, Sir Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain, Lord On British TV game show ‘I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here’ The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded: and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.Burke, Edmund A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forwardChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware ofGoodman, Ellen The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.Hazlitt, William You can laugh at tradition, laugh at customs, laugh at good old fashioned manners, but I for one have no intention of destroying the past, solely to create a future based upon nothing but fanciful ideas.Howard, Geoff In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continuesJastrow, Joseph The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.Johnson, Dr Samuel The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.Johnson, Dr Samuel At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.Maeterlinck, Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.Marx, Carl (Karl) Heinrich If you keep doing things like you’ve always done them, what you’ll get is what you’ve already gotUnknown « Previous Page | Next Page » |
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