Auden, W.H.; Kronenberger, Louis (1966), The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness, of others' strength and greatness. He is proud of his great generals but not proud of himself. He admires thought which he did not have and not the thought he did have. He believes in things all the more thoroughly the less he comprehends them, and does not believe in the correctness of those ideas which he comprehends most easily.
Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
Context: The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men. Pacifists have sometimes evaded that truth as making too great a concession to Mars, as seeming to imply (which it does not in fact) that in order to abolish war, men must cease to be noble.
Base motives are, of course, among those which make up the forces that produce war. Base motives are among those which get great cathedrals built and hospitals constructed-contractors' profit-seeking, the vested interests of doctors and clergy. But Europe has not been covered by cathedrals because contractors wanted to make money, or priests wanted jobs.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 616.
“Strength | Vegan Strongman Patrik Baboumian,” video PSA for PETA (31 December 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWmZ3lE-uc.
“The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Patience et longueur de temps
Font plus que force ni que rage.
Book II (1668), fable 11.
Fables (1668–1679)
“Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.”
Variant: Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
Source: The Lightning Thief
“Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything”
“Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.”
Source: Lost December
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
Section VIII: “Monopoly, or Opportunity?”, p. 117 http://books.google.com/books?id=rxC4IG60KTwC&pg=PA177&dq=%22man+who+is+swimming%22
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
The Two Paths, (1859).
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
Source: Homeland and Other Stories
