Allowable Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. — Miguel de Cervantes
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. — Isaac Barrow
In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have… — Terence MacSwiney
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly… — Aleister Crowley
In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names… — William Herschel
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. — Pierre Corneille
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be… — Eudora Welty
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that… — Jean de la Bruyere
In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value)… — Bill Vaughan
True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for… — Thomas Ligotti
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence… — Leo Tolstoy
The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation… — Jerry Reinsdorf
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger… — Asa Gray
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are. — William Scranton
I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to… — Mary Gordon
Deep down, beneath all our insecurities, beneath all our hopes for and beliefs in equality, each of us believes we're better than anyone else. Because… — Audrey Beth Stein
There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your… — William Scranton
Divorce was never commanded, even for adultery. Otherwise God would have given His notice of divorce to Israel and Judah long before He did. A… — John Macarthur
If God permitted divorce rather than death as a merciful concession to man's sinfulness, why would He not also permit remarriage, since remarriage would be… — John Macarthur

Who Wrote These Allowable Quotes

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