A Quote by James Anthony Froude

Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.

James Anthony Froude

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Age Bear Infirmity Now Passion Power Riches Sway Thirst

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James Anthony Froude
English - Novelist
April 23, 1818 - October 20, 1894

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

Jean de la Bruyere

Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

William Shakespeare

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Laurence Sterne

'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.

Vanessa Paradis

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Bertrand Russell

Passion acts like a magnet that attracts us to its source. We are drawn to people who radiate with passion, who live with passion, who breathe with passion. Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

Barbara De Angelis

The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

M. J. Rose

We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

Leonard Ravenhill

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

Joseph Addison

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

Aristotle

I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.

Veronica Roth

As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

Horace

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Henry Fielding

Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.