William of Auxerre Quotes

The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.

William of Auxerre

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Most

• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Speak

• I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Words
  • Speak
  • Paint

• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Law
  • Government
  • Natural

• I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • History
  • Speak
  • Playing

• I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Natural
  • Objects
  • Physical

• Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak to a group of people and create them as loyalists.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • People
  • Today
  • Speak

• I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Lose

• There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Done
  • Marriage

• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beauty
  • Virtue
  • Mask

• I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Trying
  • Father
  • English

• Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Play

• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

  

  Aristotle
  • Rules
  • Laws
  • Principles

• I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'

  

  Dan Colen
  • Kind
  • Right
  • Try

• Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

  

  Rebecca Eaton
  • Ideas
  • Stories
  • Executives

• Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • American
  • Know
  • English

• The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.

  

  William of Auxerre
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  • Virtue