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Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
— Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
Happiness is the best adventure on earth.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?
— Sir Aubrey De Vere, 2nd Baronet
Wise men and gods are on the strongest side.
— Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet
In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.
— Sir Edward Hulse, 6th Baronet
Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.
— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.
— Anthony Eden
There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
This meant in terms of social standing the baronet was so high above me that if he were a star, I would not be able to see him with the naked eye.
— Patrick Rothfuss
The best motto for a long march is 'Don't grumble. Plug on.
— Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet
There is no safer feeling than the comfort of sheltering from life's storms in the harbor of friendship.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
...but an amiable handsome baronet, who said 'Exactly' to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty, - how could he affect her as a lover?
— George Elliot
What is this 'baronet'?" the prince asked."Endlessly in between," Harry replied with a sigh. "A bit like purgatory, really. — Julia Quinn
The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.
— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.
— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.
— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote.
— Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet
A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Consummated science is positively humble.
— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Lovers, like dying men, may wellAt first disorder'd be,
Since none alive can truly tell
What Fortune they must see. — Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.
— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.
— Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.
— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried ... and we shall see.
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
— Sir Aubrey De Vere, 2nd Baronet
In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.
— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
HH Beard has perfected ... 3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better ... in 1942 and onwards.
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true.
— Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet
Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.
— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.
— Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet
Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
You hold your future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief.
— Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet
Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains
— Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
Sir Trevor Fitzwilliam, baronet, of Blackcliff Hall," he said, "at your service. And you would be?""Unconvinced," Gwen said. — Regina Scott
Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet