Fear is the mother of foresight.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

Topics: Fear Quotes, Foresight Quotes

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let...

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let...

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met...

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met...

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man...

One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man...

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I...

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I...

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure...

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure...

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is,...

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is,...

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences...

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences...

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the...

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the...