example quotes

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Burns

- Edmund Burke
  Two Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory, 9th edn.

O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.

- SirJohn Denham
  Of the Thames. Cooper's Hill, l.189^92.

Had every Christian in Hitler's Europe followed the example of the king of Denmark and decided to put on the yellow star, there would be today neither despair in the church nor talk of the death of God.

- Emil L Fackenheim
  Quest for Past and Future.

Philip is a living example of natural selection. He was as fitted to survive in this modern world as a tapeworm in an intestine.

- Sir William (Gerald) Golding
  Free Fall, ch.2.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

- Henry Valentine Miller
  The Cosmological Eye,'An Open Letter to Surrealists Everywhere'.

Il ne reste donc que l'exemple qui puisse servir de re'  gle a' quantite   de personnes dans l'exercice de la vertu. Most people can learn only by example to be virtuous.

- Abbe   Antoine-Fran c° ois Pre  vost
Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et deManon Lescaut, Avis de l'auteur.

Few things are harder to put up with thantheannoyance of a good example.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  Pudd'nheadWilson, ch.19.

He or she isgreatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.

-Walt(er) Whitman
  Leaves of Grass,'By Blue Ontario's Shores', section13.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Algernon.The Importance of Being Earnest, act1.