Quotes of Dictum - somelinesforyou

“ Although the last, not least. ”

- Edmund Spenser

“ He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Do what you should, not what you may. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you. ”

- Matthew

“ Do not look where you fell but where you slipped. ”

- Unknown

“ I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements. ”

- Penelope Lively

“ As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me. ”

- Leo Szilard

“ Although the last, not least. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ”

- Unknown

“ Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ”

- African proverb

“ The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ”

- William Feather

“ For many are called, but few are chosen. ”

- Bible

“ Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide. ”

- Henry Waldorf Francis

“ CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum — whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum — "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made. ”

- Ambrose Bierce
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