Readily Quotes

329 quotes by 280 authors

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. — Eric Hoffer
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. — Samuel Johnson
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. — Dean Koontz
I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial… — Jaron Lanier
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women,… — Ho Chi Minh
When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women. — Marilyn Monroe
At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in… — Viggo Mortensen
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big! — Sarah Jessica Parker
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through… — Mike Pence
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. — William Penn
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a… — Terry Pratchett
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana
I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and… — Jane Smiley
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were… — Sonia Sotomayor
Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And… — David A. Bednar

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