Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Every shot that kills ricochets. "
Gilbert Parker
Every
Shot
Related Quotes:
" It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. "
Gilbert Parker
Think
Trying
People
" There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. "
Gilbert Parker
Doing
Credit
You
" Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. "
Gilbert Parker
Memory
Enemy
Friend
" War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. "
Gilbert Parker
War
Make
Gentle
" Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. "
Gilbert Parker
Life
Morning
Man
" It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. "
Gilbert Parker
Pride
Broken
Broken Heart
" Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. "
Gilbert Parker
Law
You
Win Or Lose
" He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. "
Gilbert Parker
He
Evil
Speech
" Tomorrow is no man's gift. "
Gilbert Parker
Tomorrow
Future
Gift
" Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. "
Gilbert Parker
Love
Hath
Eyes
" Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry. "
Gilbert Parker
Circumstances
Worry
Work
" For when a child is born the mother also is born again. "
Gilbert Parker
Child
Mother's Day
Born
" Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. "
Gilbert Parker
Passes
Root
Love
" But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave. "
Gilbert Parker
Joy
Life
Part
" There is no influence like the influence of habit. "
Gilbert Parker
Habit
Like
Influence
" It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. "
Gilbert Parker
Two
Find
Sea
" The real business of life is trying to understand each other. "
Gilbert Parker
Real
Business
Trying
" She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. "
Gilbert Parker
Women
Never
Good
" In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. "
Gilbert Parker
End
Beautiful
Mind
" He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. "
Gilbert Parker
Him
Goal
Light