I can never think of promoting my convenience at the…

To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their…

— George Washington

For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with…

— George Washington

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient…

— Clifton Fadiman

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

— Oliver Goldsmith

What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity…

— Mary C. Ames

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience -…

— Kevin Maney

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for…

— Thomas Malthus

“And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the…

— Ayn Rand

What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named…

— Marquis de Sade

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

— Sylvia Porter

“A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of…

— David R. Brower

A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…

— Thomas Jefferson

It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I…

— Lena Dunham