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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
joseph addison— Cato, act 4, scene 1, lines 319-21 (1713)
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
alex haley— As quoted in A Touch of Class (2003) by Carol Vanderheyden, p. 60
Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.
george washington— Letter to Benedict Arnold (14 September 1775).
Shaukat Mahal and Sadar Manzil, an architectural curiosity, is a mixture of styles in occidental idioms and sets it apart from the predominantly Islamic architecture of the area. It was designed by a Frenchman, said to be a descendant of an offshoot of the Bourbon kings of France. post- renaissance and Gothic styles are combined to charming effect here.
— S. Gajrani, in History, Religion and Culture of India, Volume 5 (2004), p.81
Omnia post obitum fingit majora vetustas: Majus ab exsequiis nomen in ora venit.
sextus propertius— Time magnifies everything after death; a man's fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his burial.
— Sextus Propertius, Elegiæ, III. 1. 23.
When I was nominated for the position of Vice President I was very unenthusiastic about it. But I took the post because it provided a powerful platform to talk on matters that are important for the country.
ratu joni madraiwiwi— Closing address to the National Youth Peace camp at Debua, 9 December 2005
At the least, even if (my farewell post) is perceived as self-indulgent garbage, it will fit right in with the rest of the Net.
gene spafford— That's all, folks, posted to Usenet April 29 1993
Muslims have a credibility problem. In the modern era, we have a tendency to believe and repeat wild theories, with our only criteria for accepting those theories being that they lend support to pre-existing attitudes. It takes an extremely sympathetic person to overlook such a deficiency, and sympathy for Muslims in a post 9/11 West is in short supply.
— Our Credibility Problem: It's a Conspiracy
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal", "Thou shalt not commit adultery" and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.
George carlin
When Pearse summoned Cuchulain to his side, What stalked through the post Office? What intellect, What calculation, number, measurement, replied? We Irish, born into that ancient sect But thrown upon this filthy modern tide And by its formless spawning fury wrecked, Climb to our proper dark, that we may trace The lineaments of a plummet-measured face.
William Butler Yeats— "The Statues", stanza 4 (1938). Collected in Last Poems (1939).
Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
john milton— 1671Samson Agonistes, l.1538.
Quantities defined in terms of measurements made at the end of the period in question are referred to as ex post ; quantities defined interms of actionplannedatthe beginning of the period in question are referred to as ex ante.
— 1939 Monetary Equilibrium.
Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.
Tennyson— 1868 'Lucretius',1.145-9.
If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"
thomas guthrie— P. 128. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when, beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashings of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a damned fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with that same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke the thought aloud, 'Why don't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrades, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.
ernest thayer— Spoken at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895, as quoted in "American Heritage," (December 1968).
One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being.
joseph conrad— "The Censor of Plays" (1907)
Cowperthwaite was brilliant, well-trained in economics, suffered no fools, and was highly principled. He wouldn't last five minutes in a similar post in Britain, since he was no predisposed to compromise any of his principles - only the constitutional structure of Hong Kong allowed him that power.
john james cowperthwaite— Value for Money, the Hong Kong Budgetary Process by Alvin Rabushka (1976), page 57.
For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it is the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness [of deserting his post].
marcus aurelius— VII, 45. (Book VII)
I have thought long and deeply about the post of Foreign Secretary and have decided to offer it to Peter Carrington who – as I am sure you will agree – will do the job superbly.
margaret thatcher— Edward Heath, "The Course of My Life" (Hodder and Stoughton, 1998), p. 574.Letter written on 4 May 1979 to Edward Heath, who had been hoping for the job of Foreign Secretary in Thatcher's government.
Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm. ...healthfulness being their chief object.
vitruvius— Chapter IV, Sec. 9
If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"
— P. 128. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The Travancore royal family took a different approach to ruling its territories and managing the properties of the State. The king served as Padmanabha Dasa [who] ruled on behalf of god and swore allegiance only to god. In 1949, Maharaja Chithira Thirunal Rama Varma came close to refusing the post of Rajpramukh because he could not “give oath to the Indian government".
— A. Srivathsan, in "A kingdom and a temple, July 21, 2011".
Quot post excidium Trojae sunt eruta regna? Quot capti populi? quoties Fortuna per orbem Servitium imperiumque tulit, varieque revertit?
— How many realms since Troy have been o'erthrown?
How many nations captive led? How oft
Has Fortune up and down throughout the world
Changed slavery for dominion?
— I, 506, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1897) by T. B. Harbottle, p. 248.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene 4.
Triste est omne animale post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque
— Eevery animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster
— Galen (30-200 A.D.), in: Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, (1973), p. 19
(The lockout) makes no sense unless you put it in the context of a wider strategy, which is to somehow weaken Canadians' commitment to Canada post so that ultimately, when the government gets out there to privatize it, they think they can get the public on their side
jack layton— Feds using lockout as wedge to privatize Canada Post: Layton June 17, 2011
The Command post is gone, we can't hold them back much longer. We cannot let the Titan Cannon fall into enemy hands. Overload the core!
— Who: Kasrkin Captain Vash
— Notes: The cannon's core is overloaded and the cannon explodes, destroying the Imperial Guard's Fortress of Victory Bay.
