Compass Quotes

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. (Augustine of Hippo)
He that has patience may compass anything. View quote
François Rabelais
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. View quote
Edmund Waller
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. View quote
Joseph Addison
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners. View quote
Colley Cibber
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. View quote
William Hazlitt
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. View quote
Robert Charles Winthrop
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware. View quote
Robert Frost
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. (Khaled Hosseini)
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. View quote
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. View quote
Michelangelo
People should just express themselves and not worry about trends - try to use fashion like a compass, an indicator, examples of things that you can be. It's not to be taken so seriously. It's just clothes. View quote
Kelly Cutrone
Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything. View quote
Bolesław Prus
I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. View quote
Washington Irving
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic To human behaviour ... There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all. View quote
Björk
A little instruction in the elements of chartography-a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map-would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost. (Mary Antin)
A society without religion is like a vessel without compass. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. View quote
John Perry Barlow
Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way. View quote
Matthew Green
Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci