Misspending a man’s time is a kind of self-homicide.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Time, Time Management
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Identity, Names
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Punishment
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Lawyers, Law
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Education, Universities, Colleges
Most men’s anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Anger
He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Chance
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Anger
A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Thinking, Thought, Thoughts
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Politics, Politicians
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
—E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Topics: Gratitude
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