All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of… — Julian Critchley Copy Share Image
No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons,… — William Hague Copy Share Image
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
We would like to see science and higher education developing here [on the Russian Far East], so that it could become one… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people,… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Generally Labour Legislations are constructively fortified with the goal of revitalizing the socio-economic fabric of the country through their malleable yet firm… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that by its soundness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread,… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers &… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image