Best Employ Proverbs
292 Employ quotes by 252 unique authors
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the…
— Quintilian
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I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it…
— Terry Pratchett
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Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may…
— David Ricardo
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and…
— Marquis de Sade
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I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their…
— Jerry Saltz
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
— Voltaire
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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from…
— Thornton Wilder
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
— Felix Dennis
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out…
— Felix Dennis
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The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most…
— Adam Smith
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate…
— Marquis de Sade
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Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.
— Terry Pratchett
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And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so…
— Michel de Montaigne
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All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to…
— Blaise Pascal
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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
— Barbara Mertz
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He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ…
— Terry Pratchett
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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our…
— Amy Lowell
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The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
— Francis Bacon
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Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu…
— Confucius
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What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?"…
— Erich Segal
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Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that…
— Robert Bresson
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No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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