We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality. — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back. — Rolonda Watts Copy Share Image
Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart. — Marian Hooper Adams Copy Share Image
He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
You could paper the globe with evidence that there are demonstrable cognitive and physical disparities between what are crudely called human "races."… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I've never wanted to spare myself because I feel there are people who are no longer around and died for this struggle.… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment. — David Rawlings Copy Share Image
I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons. — Joleon Lescott Copy Share Image
Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose. — William Taylor Copy Share Image
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house. — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image