Interpose quotes:

Send

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. -- Benjamin Franklin
When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece. -- Howard Staunton
Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not. -- Howard Staunton
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. -- Joseph Lancaster
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances. -- Levi Woodbury
Death ready stands to interpose his dart. -- John Milton
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. -- Benjamin Franklin
I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills. -- A. B. Simpson
For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. -- John Milton
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. -- Walter Lippmann
When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them. -- Hugh Latimer
The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose. -- Samuel Johnson

Send