Famous Quotes

"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."

Robert Burton on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Robert Burton

• "Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."

• "Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun."

• "To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."

• "One was never married, and that's his hell another is, and that's his plague."

• "What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning."