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Edward Gibbon
Quotes
Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Edward Gibbon?
→ False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
→ Science is but an image of the truth.
→ We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
→ Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
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Pick the quote attributed to Edward Gibbon.
→ If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
→ From the end spring new beginnings.
→ If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
→ The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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Select the quotation attributed to Edward Gibbon.
→ Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
→ Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
→ Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
→ Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
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One of these may be attributed to Edward Gibbon. Which one?
→ He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
→ Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
→ Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
→ I was never less alone than when by myself.
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Which one of these belongs to Edward Gibbon?
→ Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
→ Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
→ Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
→ To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Edward Gibbon?
→ Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
→ I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
→ There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
→ We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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