52 Lest Quotes for You to Enjoy

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. John Ruskin

You Darkness Light Walk Come While Lest

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness. William O. Douglas

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Myself Lose Action Despair Must Wither Lest

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests. H. P. Lovecraft

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart. John Wesley

Me Heart Money Way Out Possible Would Find Stays Throw Never Soon Did Hands Burn Should Lest

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. Jimmy Reid

Silence You Injustice Face Rat Society Pressures Critical Would Promotion Insidious Rat Race Rats Faculties Around Caution Human Human Beings Blunt Happening Race Your Beings Lest Reject Chances

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop

You Lose Shadow Beware Substance Grasping Lest

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Montesquieu

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes. William Shakespeare

You Mind Little Should Your Fortunes Lest Mar Speech

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. Claude Debussy

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed. Ali ibn Abi Talib

Broken You Too Squeezed Hard Lest Soft

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. William Drummond

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. Francis Bacon

Truth Good You Truth Is Dog Too Kicked Out Beware Always Brains Error Close Get Heels Your Barking Lest

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. Arthur Miller

Man Tools Must Shape Him His Lest

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. Christina Rossetti

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. Demosthenes

War You Anxiety Master Beware Obtain Your Avoid Lest

I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer. Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Great Me Heart Fight Satan Better Matter Enemies Christ Own Wicked Tremble Ought Easy My Own More Shall Come Know Sure Am Off Than Get Reason Lest Strengthening

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery. Emily Dickinson

Life Broken Stumble Hopes Likes Well Sure Pile Lest

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. Epictetus

Control Take Thy Passions Thee Lest

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. Robert Byrd

People Speak Liberty Disagree Citizen Duty Extreme Say Out Misguided Underfoot Protect Partisanship Left American Trampled Happening American People Vigilant Awaken Lest Each Right

Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.' Saint Basil

Journey You Speak Fear Word Long Despise Our Unable Out More Unreasonable Long Journey Through Absolutely Because Fish Command Perpetuation Than Listen May Reason Who Actions Lest Even Creator Species Utter Resisting Set

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