William Penn Quotes - Page 2

English - Leader October 14, 1644 - July 30, 1718

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. William Penn

Sail, More, Judgment, Wit, Than, Less

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn

Man, Fool, Enough, Bad, Own, Everybody

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. William Penn

Learning, Live, Done, Know, How, Very

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. William Penn

Mind, Candle, World, Reading, Oppression

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. William Penn

Power, Men, Trees, Winds, Fortune, Most

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. William Penn

Truth, Nothing, More, Heat, Right, Than

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. William Penn

People, Government, Think, Will, Govern

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. William Penn

Passion, Man, Reason, Mob, Riot, His

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. William Penn

Never, Force, May, Make, Hypocrites

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. William Penn

Love, Man, Wife, Children, Authority

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. William Penn

Conquer, Weakness, Never, Thou, Must

To be like Christ is to be a Christian. William Penn

Christian, Christ, Like

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. William Penn

Better, Church, Bitter, Than, Far, Would

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. William Penn

Father, Wisdom, Great, Live, Care, Him

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. William Penn

Love, Virtue, Deserve, More, Praise, Apt

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. William Penn

Man, Humble, Humility, Worth, Double

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. William Penn

Heart, Help, Right, Censure

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. William Penn

Children, Men, More, Dogs, Horses, Than

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. William Penn

Wisdom, Promise, Perform, Lawful, Rarely

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. William Penn

Beauty, Friend, Marriage, Wife, Money

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