It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the… — Pat Roberts Copy Share Image
Let every nation, right now, do what is best for all citizens of the world: eliminate every form of intervention that would… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
I have many dear friends in the film industry, but finally, the roles come to me on merit, not because of personal… — Govinda Copy Share Image
The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy. — David Platt Copy Share Image
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits:… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man… — Ellin Devis Copy Share Image
Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough… — Deborah Hersman Copy Share Image
You must begin to trust yourself. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction… — Robert Ferrar Copy Share Image
“[Louis Rendu] collects observations, makes experiments, and tries to obtain numerical results; always taking care, however, so to state his premises and… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
