Abide Quotes

Abide Quotes & Sayings

These abide quotes and abide sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire. - Jalal-Uddin Rumi


Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask, Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. - Matthew Arnold


All men carry about them that which is poison to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death. - Pliny the Elder


Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicitly believe, and abide by their belief. - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne


As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself. - Oliver Goldsmith


And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award, let them abide by theirs. - Plato [Aristocles]


Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - D. H. Lawrence


Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it. - Howard Hughes


The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. - Harper Lee


'They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions,' said Atticus, 'but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.' (To Kill a Mockingbird) - Harper Lee


A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. - George Herbert