master quotes

• Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. (Francis Bacon) [money/servant/master]
• I have only one counsel for you -- be master. ( Napoleon I) [master]
• But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame. (Charlotte Bronte) [master/result/willpower/willpower]
• One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. (Albert Camus) [leader/people/master]
• Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. (Albert Camus) [god/master]
• Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. (Winston Churchill) [master]
• The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion. (Marcus Cicero) [master/master]
• In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master. (Marcus Cicero) [master/servant/servant/master]
• Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. ( Confucius) [master/fear]
• He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master. (John Dryden) [servant/master]
• Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. (Albert Einstein) [master]
• The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [measure/master/men/opinion]
• A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate. (Jose Ferrer) [master]
• The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. (Benjamin Franklin) [master/willpower/more]
• Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master. (Benjamin Franklin) [fool/master]
• Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar. (Robert Frost) [master/speed/life/life]
• Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [master]
• Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. (Martin Heidegger) [acts/master/language/language]
• We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. (Ernest Hemingway) [master]
• The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. (Eric Hoffer) [master]
• Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [love/master/happiness]
• Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [master/past]
• In the word of no master am I bound to believe. ( Horace) [master]
• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. (Victor Hugo) [master]
• The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. (Thomas Jefferson) [master/slave/exercise]
• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. () [give/fool/master]
• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. (Abraham Lincoln) [slave/master/democracy]
• What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells? (John Masefield) [thing/master]
• He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. (Philip Massinger) [master]
• Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature. (Henry Miller) [master/nature]
• A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond. (John Milton) [master/spirit/life]

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