The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You must begin to trust yourself sometime. I suggest you do it now. If you do not then you will forever be… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
Although most friendships that exist do not merit the name, we can nevertheless make use of them in accordance with our needs,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would… — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness… — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image
I don't think women are interesting enough to merit a book. They're more of a pamphlet sex. — Alex Linder Copy Share Image
I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
“Rejoice in the works of your hands, be happy and thankful that you are valuable, that what you say and do insn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every woman deserves to have a man who is proudly willing to say the whole world YEAH, she is my one and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
