Laudable Quotes

38 quotes by 34 authors

A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress… — John Climacus
How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is… — H. L. Mencken
You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed. — Abraham Lincoln
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids… — Thomas Jefferson
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state… — George Washington
I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I… — Thomas Huxley
Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions. — Thomas Hobbes
One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim… — H. L. Mencken
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the… — Jane Austen
The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris… — George H. W. Bush
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. — John Milton
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make… — Thomas Ligotti
If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is… — Genghis Khan
Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely… — Lawrence Anthony
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those… — B. C. Forbes
The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses… — P T Barnum
To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the need for us… — John Dramani Mahama
I believe in helping our fellow man in need. I believe that reaching into your own pockets to help someone in need is praiseworthy and… — Walter E. Williams
There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help… — Walter E. Williams

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