{"id":6521,"date":"2016-05-13T14:14:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:14:33","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Edward_F._Halifax_16_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=6521","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Edward F. Halifax (16 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1881-1959, British Conservative Statesman<\/b><\/div>\n
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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Thoughts and Thinking<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Anger<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Gratitude<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Chance<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Colleges and Universities<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Law and Lawyers<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Politicians and Politics<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Punishment<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Opinions<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Time and Time Management<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Anger<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Names<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Beauty<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Money<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Truth<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.<\/div>\n
Edward F. Halifax – [Revolutions and Revolutionaries<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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