Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.
Heaven forbids that man should know What change tomorrow's fate may bring.
Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.
Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat. , Primus in orbe deos fecit timor. ]
Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly. [Lat. , Ne frena animo permitte calenti; Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat Impetus. ]
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine. . . a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life. " To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?
I might not be Silent any longer, but I still have the perfect poker face.
[Hillary] Clinton, we are not where we need to be in the fight against ISIS.
Why does it take girls so long to shower?” he demanded. “Mortal girls, Shadowhunters, female warlocks, you‘re all the same. I‘m not getting any younger waiting out here. ” -Magnus to Clary, pg. 272-