Master Quotes

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

The ego is not master in its own house.

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.