Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable. — Georges Courteline Copy Share Image
The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can… — Andreas Capellanus Copy Share Image
If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“This was the time when the rush for the spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question:… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Descending the endless stairs for the sixth time, Mr. Lecky thought of all the goods those closed doors hid. Fantastic was the… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
