Nazareth Quotes
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Who lies for you will lie against you.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
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A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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The beauty or uncomeliness of many things, in good and ill breeding, will be better learnt, and make deeper impressions on them, in the examples of others, than from any rules or instructions can be given about them.
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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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In the beginning, all the world was America.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
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Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
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The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
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Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.
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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
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Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
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The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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I started a band in 1961 that eventually became Nazareth later on along the way. I have always been in the band and it is a way of life. I have a great and exciting job.
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
