Tom Costello > Tom's Quotes

“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.”
― Lucy Parsons, Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937

“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
― William Penn

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
― William Penn

“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably”
― William Penn

“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”
― William Penn

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship.
If absence be not death, neither is theirs.
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent.
In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure.
This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”
― William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude/ More Fruits of Solitude

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”
― William Penn, Some Fruits Of Solitude

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
― William Penn

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”
― William Penn, More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life.

“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”
― William Penn

“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”
― William Penn

“Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee”
― William Penn

“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
― William Penn

“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
― William Penn

“I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.”
― William Penn

“If we would mend the World,
we should mend Ourselves;
and teach our Children to be,
not what we are,
but what they should be.”
― William Penn

“Let us try what love will do.”
― William Penn

“Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.”
― William Penn

“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father’s care.”
― William Penn

“A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.”
― William Penn

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed”
― William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude

“Let us see what love can do.”
― William Penn

“Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.”
― William Penn

“Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.”
― William Penn

“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.”
― William Penn

“Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough to
make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations,
as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have
Things of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress'd as those that
are full of precious Drugs.
They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level
Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the
Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have
need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the
Weather.”
― William Penn