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Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
— Joan Halifax
When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.
— Joan Halifax
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
The past is the best way to suppose what may come.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service.
— Mike Harding
Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.
— Charles Montagu, 1st Earl Of Halifax
For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
— Joan Halifax
Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.
— Joan Halifax
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
If politicians would think more they would act less.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
Service is the rent that we pay for our room on earth.
— Charles Lindley Wood Halifax
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
— Joan Halifax
Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.
— Joan Halifax
Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.
— Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart.
— Joan Halifax