GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should… — Plato Copy Share Image
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good. [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes… — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their… — Giuliana Tedeschi Brunelli Copy Share Image
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day. — Rollo May 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 greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing… — Collier Schorr Copy Share Image
I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella'… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people.… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
It consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude of God's gifts, taken one… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
