The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent. — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
If I was switched from whatever I'm doing, and I was, for some reason, made the chief football writer in any newspaper,… — Steve Bunce Copy Share Image
If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
When you're the commander in chief, you're the commander in chief on day one. You don't get like a six-month grace period.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The most important Bible teaching that I remembered when I was in the Navy and when I was Commander-in-Chief, was that we… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though… — John Blacking Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton's opponent in the U.S. Senate race, the Republican she's going to be running against, has been married three times, had… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
We created the spirituals. We created so much great music, jazz chief amongst our innovations, teaching us how to prize ourselves and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope. — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king. — Homer Copy Share Image
Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first. — Richard Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself. — Francis M. Lyman Copy Share Image
We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image