Ask me questions concerning tomorrow. [ Congreve ]
While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone. [ Hume ]
I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. [ Bible ]
The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [ La Bruyere ]
Ten Things To Do.
Do good to all.
Speak evil of none.
Hear and know the facts before judging.
Think before speaking.
Hold an angry tongue.
Be kind to the distressed.
Ask pardon for all wrongs.
Be patient toward everybody.
Stop the ears to a tale-bearer.
Disbelieve most of the ill reports concerning friends, neighbors, and people in general.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. [ Cicero ]
In all our reasonings concerning men, we must lay it down as a maxim that the greater part are moulded by circumstances. [ Robert Hall ]
To be impatient at the death of a person concerning whom it was certain he must die is to mourn because thy friend was not born an angel. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
In all instances where our experience of the past has been extensive and uniform, our judgment concerning the future amounts to moral certainty. [ Beattie ]
Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking: they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. [ Dr. Watts ]
There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. [ Matthew Henry ]
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain. [ Dr. Johnson ]