Promise is most given when the least is said.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

I am ashamed the law is such an ass.

Black is a pearl in a womans eye.

Danger the spur of all great minds.

Fortune the great commandress of the world Hath diverse ways to advance her followers To some she gives honor without deserving To other some deserving without honor Some wit some wealth and some wit without wealth Some wealth without wit some nor wit nor wealth.

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

Let pride go afore shame will follow after.

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

News as wholesome as the morning air.

Light gains make heavy purses.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.

I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.