Former Quotes

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.