Roscommon Quotes
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Roscommon Quotes & Sayings
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If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The multitude is always wrong.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
The result was magnificent ... I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
— Arthur Rubinstein
Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
We weep and laugh, as we see others do.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
— Leon Panetta
Often try what weight you can support,And what your shoulders are too weak to bear. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Whatsoever contradicts my sense,I hate to see, and never can believe. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
— Andre Maurois
Anger will always stand in the way of your dreams. Don't let anyone take your dreams.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
— Alex Lowe
My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.
— Richard Flanagan
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
— H.L. Mencken
You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
The first great work (a task performed by few)Is that yourself may to yourself be true. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Choose an author as you would a friend.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon