Ernest Bramah Quotes

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.

One may ride upon a tiger’s back but it is fatal to dismount.

One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Eat in the dark the bargain that you purchased in the dusk.

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.

There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.

Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.