Cease Quotes

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.