far quotes

Now the Lord saith,Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel 2:30.

Le tact dans l'audace c'est de savoirjusqu'o  u' on peut aller trop loin. Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go too far.

-Jean Cocteau
  Le Coq et l'Arlequin.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

- Sir Robert Gordon Menzies
  Quoted in the Sydney MorningHerald, 27  Apr. Menzies was one of the first  Australian statesmen to recognize the importance to his country of  Asia.

En toi je vis, o  u' que tu sois absente; En moi je meurs, o  u' que je sois pre  sent. Tant loin sois-tu, toujours tu es pre  sente; Pour pre'  s que sois, encore suis-je absent. I live in you, wherever you are, when you are absent; I die in myself wherever I am. No matter how faraway you are, you are always present; And no matter how near you are, I am always absent.

- Maurice Sce'  ve
  De  lie, no.144.

Far may be sought Erst that ye can find So courteous, so kind, As Merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower.

-John Skelton
  The Garland of Laurel,'To Mistress Margaret Hussey'.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

- Logan Pearsall Smith
Afterthoughts,'Age and Death'.

He seems so near and yet so far.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 97, l.23.