Lest Quotes

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

The simplest things are often the truest.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.