A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
We accept without reservation the scriptural teachings that Christ is the Son of God and that he came into the world to… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding -… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I want men and women to both feel a part in the flourishment of female power. So I want to celebrate that… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships,… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Several things ran through my head as I watched this silent ballet: First, I was running low on pears, my favorite morning… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith. An… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It's interesting to me because theater is, on any given day, 10,000 times harder than film and television. And that's not to… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue… — Noah Worcester Copy Share Image
Over and over in the play my character says, "I'm thirty-two years old," as if that should explain everything that's wrong in… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck. "Your injury. Let us tend to it." He… — David Wong Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can… — Baba Amte Copy Share Image
The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting the errors in the system that do reflect an institutional bias… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Contrary to what most of Hollywood will tell you, the men and women of our armed forces are the best among us.… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish Marta were more loyal to me. Like the other day. The car parked next to ours had a real… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
![“...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours…All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2b4/mark-twain-22_adversaries_we-all-know-that-in-all-matters-of-mere_2773253.png)
![“[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his "philosophy" must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too…” quote by Thomas Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/829/thomas-wolfe-4237_alive_t-he-essence-of-belief-is-doubt-the-esse_1970130.jpg)
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