Cannot Make Quotes

275 quotes by 229 authors

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. — C.S. Lewis
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. — Elbert Hubbard
He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. — Herman Melville
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric S. Raymond
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. — Ludwig von Mises
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. — Clarence Thomas
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other… — Abraham Lincoln
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because… — Georgia O'Keeffe
The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest. — Albert E. Bowen
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure… — Sun Tzu
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity… — Sun Tzu
You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear. — William Shakespeare
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find… — Ignatius Loyola
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. — Rosamond Lehmann
A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I… — William Shakespeare
What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly… — Eugen Richter
Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes… — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we… — Bob Brown
A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink. — John Heywood

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