A Quote by Edward Coke

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Edward Coke

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Bribe Fault Great Small Though

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Edward Coke
English - Businessman
February 1, 1552 - September 3, 1634

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

Graham Greene

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

Benjamin Franklin

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

C. S. Lewis

Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.

Rose Macaulay

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

Alexander Pope

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.

John Dryden

Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

William Shakespeare

But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

Emilia Lanier

I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

Stephen Hawking

I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Vincent Van Gogh

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

John Wolcot

You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's.

Jill Soloway

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

Andrew Tobias

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