Master Quotes
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The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
Abraham Lincoln
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[Yorgos Lanthimos] is really a master I feel, I really do.
Colin Farrell
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The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo
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Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.
David Bronstein
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I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.
Elliott Colla
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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
Idries Shah
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The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
Confucius
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The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.
Edward Hallett Carr
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Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
Gautama Buddha
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Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.
Blaise Pascal
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The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities. Do not spread disease germs!
Boyd K. Packer
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Mr Philpotts was a chemistry master whose principal characteristic lay in a sort of unfocused vehemence.
Edmund Crispin
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For my money, Ray Brown is the greatest living bass player. Every great thing that's happened on bass since Ray Brown - all of us point back to him. That's where it started, you know. Ray Brown is definitely a walking master, and to get to play with him is obviously an opportunity that no one should ever pass up.
Christian McBride
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The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
Lao Tzu
