Best 6 quotes of Francis Cornford on MyQuotes

Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

I had a little dog and my dog was very small....Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.

My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I, him.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.