Five Quotes

It is only necessary to make war with five things with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the flesh, with the seditions of the politic and the discords of families. (Pythagoras)
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. View quote
Confucius
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter. View quote
Winston Churchill
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls this adventure Science. View quote
Edwin Hubble
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. (Warren Buffett)
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. View quote
Warren Buffett
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. View quote
Christopher Morley
My wife and I have five children the reason we have five children is because we do not want six. View quote
Bill Cosby
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. View quote
Groucho Marx
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. View quote
John Updike
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. View quote
Petrarch
I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it. View quote
Mae West
Majority rule will only work if you're considering individual rights. You can't have five wolves and one sheep vote on what they want to have for supper. (Larry Flynt)
You need three or five hands to play Ligeti. View quote
Alfred Brendel
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. View quote
Christopher Morley
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. View quote
Edward Abbey
📖 Five Proverbs