Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word — John Owen Copy Share Image
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education. — Hugh MacDiarmid Copy Share Image
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with… — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using… — Ethan Nadelmann Copy Share Image
Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of… — Peter Thomas Bauer Copy Share Image
All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification,… — Eric Bell Copy Share Image
Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most… — John Leo Copy Share Image
In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Do not accept principal risk while investing short-term cash: the greedy effort to earn a few extra basis points of yield inevitably… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
The law enforcement authorities have got a fairly good idea of who are these principal criminals. Who are the people, for instance,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.… — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
My dad was a principal and coach. My sister was a superintendent of schools in West Virginia. — Mike D'Antoni Copy Share Image
