Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: Control Quotes

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of...

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of...

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and...

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and...

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical...

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical...

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world...

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world...

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness...

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness...

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all...

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all...

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years...

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years...

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with...

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with...

Music is the universal language of mankind

Music is the universal language of mankind

Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still,...

Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still,...

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and...

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and...

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of...

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of...

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in...

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in...

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate...

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate...

There is something about saying Ok and hanging up the receiver with a bang that...

There is something about saying Ok and hanging up the receiver with a bang that...