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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4d0332b | We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. | Promises | ||
| 2704ada | Giants inIn their performance. | Promises | ||
| 6e69059 | Thy promises are like Adonis' gardensThat one day bloomed and fruitful were the next. | Promises | ||
| bf14ead | His promises were, as he then was, mighty;But his performance, as he is now, nothing. | Promises | ||
| 4280430 | Promises and Pye-Crusts,... are made to be broken. | Promises | ||
| d352c2e | We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. | Promises | ||
| b907ada | Nativity is the enemy of prophecy. | Prophecy | ||
| d0f8067 | Prophets don't know everything! | Prophecy | ||
| 2911b56 | A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house. | Prophecy | ||
| 79f2f49 | The historian is a prophet facing backwards. | Prophecy | ||
| 215148c | O my prophetic soul!My uncle! | Prophecy | ||
| 98efd14 | You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now. | Prophecy | ||
| ec68844 | Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego. | Prophecy | ||
| 5442276 | The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. | Prophecy | ||
| 048c9c6 | Ancestral voices prophesying war. | Prophecy | ||
| 0c8a6a3 | We know in part, and we prophesy in part. | Prophecy | ||
| 0d80505 | My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow:Don't never prophesy--onless ye know. | Prophecy | ||
| 7436762 | No mighty trance, or breathed spellInspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. | Prophecy | ||
| 29e79ae | Is Saul also among the prophets? | Prophecy | ||
| 2ea9085 | Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? | Prophecy | ||
| 0c773bf | There are two sides to every question. | Protagoras | ||
| b03bd11 | A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right. | Protection | ||
| 209537c | In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty. | Protest | ||
| c561659 | Protestantism is better than Catholicism, because there is less of it. | Protestantism | ||
| 8809fc8 | Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience. | Proverbs | ||
| 2cbd30c | I can tell thee where that saying was born. | Proverbs | ||
| 3bad9c3 | The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs. | Proverbs | ||
| 84c9a72 | Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. | Proverbs | ||
| eff8cf1 | Much matter decocted into few words. | Proverbs | ||
| ad5c3de | A proverb and a byword among all people. | Proverbs | ||
| e5c3cf2 | Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. | Proverbs | ||
| b72d54b | Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked. | Proverbs | ||
| c998617 | And be not like those who say, We hear; and they hear not. | Quran | ||
| 1eb4e17 | The Devil is the enemy of proverbs ("Der Teuffel ist den Sprichwortten feindt"). | Proverbs | ||
| 412993a | And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. | Providence | ||
| 0c32c7f | We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours. | Providence | ||
| a1efc70 | To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure. | Providence | ||
| e4974d8 | God sends cold according to clothes. | Providence | ||
| d3e2e7a | Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trialTo my proportion'd strength. | Providence | ||
| 844d8d6 | Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. | Providence | ||
| 6c98af2 | Who finds not Providence all good and wise,Alike in what it gives, and what denies. | Providence | ||
| 4af6630 | Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze,Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. | Providence | ||
| 398ed72 | There is a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will. | Providence | ||
| f070ab4 | O God, thy arm was here;Ascribe we all! | Providence |