You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor... — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly. — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Let us put our hands today again at (God's) disposition and pray that he takes our hands to guide us. Let his… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a… — Brett Brown Copy Share Image
The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which… — Paul Bartsch Copy Share Image
A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events,… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
