Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication… — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections,… — John Eudes Copy Share Image
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the… — Cole Younger Copy Share Image
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image