Simple means, great results. [ French Proverb ]
The end must justify the means. [ Prior ]
O most lame and impotent conclusion! [ William Shakespeare ]
Evil then results from imperfection. [ Bailey ]
A bad ending follows a bad beginning. [ Euripides ]
Pure motives do not ensure perfect results. [ Bovee ]
From little spark may burst a mighty flame. [ Dante ]
Great floods have flown From simple sources. [ William Shakespeare ]
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. [ William Shakespeare ]
The evening shows the day, and death crowns life. [ Webster ]
Great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results. [ Lowell ]
Duty and today are ours; results and futurity belong to God. [ Horace Greeley ]
All things are symbolical, and what we call results are beginnings. [ Plato ]
A great fondness for animals often results from a knowledge of men.
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous. [ Mme. Necker ]
Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. [ Miss Mulock ]
The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit, and the results of its civilization. [ J. G. Holland ]
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons. [ Metastasio ]
Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. [ S. Smiles ]
Never argue. In society nothing must be: give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. [ Beaconsfield ]
Good resolutions are a useless attempt to interfere with scientific laws; their origin pure vanity, their results absolutely nil. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. [ Heine ]
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again. [ Hamerton ]
After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress. [ Hugh R. Haweis ]
Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]
Whatever we may say against such collections which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem, to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of the mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant quotations." [ Goethe ]