Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.
Kenelm Digby

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
Jean Rostand

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Plato

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Lucan

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
James Allen

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri

The present will not long endure.
Pindar

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Thomas Aquinas

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
John Burroughs

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Ludwig von Mises

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
Todd Rundgren

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
Sinclair Lewis

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
Camilo Jose Cela

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
Lewis Carroll

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
Alan Paton