Deeds Quotes

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

The first faults are theirs that commit them; the second theirs that permit them.

Better do it than wish it done.

He who commences many things finishes but few.

Long tongue – short hands.

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.

A good deed is never lost.

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to […]

If to do were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages prince’s palaces. (The Merchant of Venice)

His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.