Procure Quotes

50 quotes by 47 authors

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although… — John James Audubon
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will… — Saint Basil
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. — Elias Canetti
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain… — Samuel Johnson
Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that… — Abraham Lincoln
The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed. We wish very… — Henry Oldenburg
...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom… — Thomas Jefferson
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their… — Lewis Browne
There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble. — Plautus
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to… — Baron d'Holbach
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's... But how does the great apostle spend his time in prison?... We read of no… — William Gurnall
I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into… — Arthur Koestler
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters. — William Shakespeare
There is no doubt that the Americans losses are very heavy because they are deployed across a wide area and among the people and because… — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating… — Henry Fielding
Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness… — Thomas Jefferson

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