Observed Quotes

606 Observed quotes by 476 unique authors

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees? — Michel de Montaigne
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate. — Michel de Montaigne
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They… — Mark Twain
Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this? — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and… — Michel de Montaigne
It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going. — Groucho Marx
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned… — Andre Gide
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich. — Samuel Johnson
It is not observed in history that families improve with time. — George William Curtis
In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there… — Elizabeth Bowen
... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. — Robert Adams
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go… — Walter Benjamin
This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and… — Aleister Crowley
There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty… — Henry Ford
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of… — Howard Staunton
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is… — Samuel Johnson
The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes? — Nicholas Stern
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have… — Anthony Trollope
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to… — Gerhard Richter
The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made… — Samuel Johnson
In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area… — Tim Cahill
As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly. — Tibor Fischer
Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told… — Tom Bodett
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. — Talcott Parsons

Who Wrote These Observed Quotes

476 authors contributed a total of 606 Observed Quotes, led by these top contributors: