Frederic W. Maitland Quotes

“We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.”

“Be the difference that makes the difference!”

“If you want to win the race be prepared to get off the starting blocks!”

“The power others have to upset us and to steer us off our path is the power we gave to them.”

“You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.”

“The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.”

“No one gets away with committting murder on the premises.""No exceptions?" she asked.His smile was as cold as his eyes. "One exception.""You," she said."Me."She took a short, tight breath."But you didn't kill Gloria Maitland," she said."What makes you so sure I didn't murder her?""You're a magician. You would have done a better job of it.”

“Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.”

“Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.”

“Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.”