Account Quotes

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Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will. — Michel de Montaigne
Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. — Ambrose Bierce
Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season. — Mark Twain
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only. — Mencius
It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education… — Bertrand Russell
And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case. — Joseph Hall
I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can… — James Fallows
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into… — Plutarch
Fate, Chance, Godâ€™s Will â€” we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens,… — Robert Breault
Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and… — Owen Gingerich
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. — Anais Nin
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them… — Emile M. Cioran
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by… — Andre Gide
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You… — Samuel Johnson
Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess… — Samuel Johnson
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what… — Simone de Beauvoir
... some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent. — Billy Graham

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