William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#Age #Purgatory #Old Age
Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#Simple #Men #Light
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#Men #Manners #Gentility
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#Children #Kids #Praise
Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#Stranger #Neighbor #Borrowing
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#Heart #Men #Winning
Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#Summer #Soldier #Chimneys
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#England #Parliament #Ruined
What! All this for a song?
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

#Song

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isnâ€™t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.
[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.
Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
Old age is the verdict of life.
My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.
There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

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