Sinews Quotes

47 quotes by 40 authors

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. — Samuel Butler
The sinews of war are infinite money. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable… — Alexander Hamilton
Money is the sinews of love, as of war. — George Farquhar
It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it… — Joseph Lyons
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
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and… — Adam Sedgwick
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. — Ernest Hemingway
O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its… — Lord Chesterfield
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate… — William Shakespeare
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with… — Mencius
Wealth is the sinews of affairs. — Wilfred Bion
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring… — Epictetus
Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its muscles. To pray… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer
There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace." — Winston Churchill
Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. — William Shakespeare
Taxes are the sinews of the state. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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