“If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us?”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 165
Source: Staff Reporter, "Mangalampalli can't wait to come home".
“If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us?”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 165
William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
Political Register (11 January 1806), quoted in Karl W. Schweizer and John W. Osborne, Cobbett and His Times (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990), p. 15.
Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma (1922–2013) Maharaja of Travancore
In "Royal vignettes: Travancore - Simplicity graces this House (30 March 2003)"
“Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.”
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Aphorism 102
Les Caractères (1688), De l'Homme
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848) British Whig statesman
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1839/may/14/ministerial-explanations#column_1015 in the House of Lords (14 May 1839) during the Bedchamber Crisis
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987) French writer
Alexis (1929)
Context: Every silence is composed of nothing but unspoken words. Perhaps that is why I became a musician. Someone had to express this silence, make it render up all the sadness it contained, make it sing as it were. Someone had to use not words, which are always too precise not to be cruel, but simply music.
Basava (1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism
[Chekki, Danesh A., Religion and Social System of the Vīraśaiva Community, http://books.google.com/books?id=x7JZMy1qntgC&pg=PA48, 1 January 1997, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-0-313-30251-0, 48–]
Bismillah Khan (1916–2006) Indian musician
When he was perturbed at not being invited to play in concerts when other instrumentalists held solo performances, and it is when Lord Balaji whispered in his ears “All good things begin with Shehnai”.
Quote, Encyclopedia of Bharat Ratnas