Procured Quotes

32 quotes by 27 authors

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. — Samuel Johnson
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance… — Thomas Jefferson
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything… — Mark Twain
Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it. — Sir Fulke Greville
A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success… — Don Kates
God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes… — Pope Innocent III
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have… — Jean-Paul Marat
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in… — David Ricardo
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required,… — David Ricardo
I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with. — Joseph Priestley
Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgressions.… — Stephen Charnock
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would… — Plato
RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. — Ambrose Bierce
There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for,… — Markus Wolf
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound. — William Bligh
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. — Ovid
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval… — Samuel Johnson
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. — Epictetus
At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to… — Dolley Madison

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