As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this day, no national union and no… — John William Dawson Copy Share Image
Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence. — John White Geary Copy Share Image
The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. — Lucan Copy Share Image
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying… — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves… — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but… — Philo Copy Share Image
