Chief Quotes

993 quotes by 746 authors

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail… — Dean Koontz
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. — Groucho Marx
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is… — Harlan Ellison
Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here? — Eoin Colfer
The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to… — Woody Allen
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless… — Anne Bronte
Former police chief of Houston once said of me: â€œFrank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign… — Frank Abagnale
While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot… — C.S. Lewis
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His… — Ambrose Bierce
The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative. — Marilyn Monroe
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a… — Aristotle
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time… — Thomas More
Be the chief but never the lord. — Laozi
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and… — Hubert H. Humphrey
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains… — Eugene Delacroix
Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. — Henry Ford
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. — James Bryce

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