Increase Quote by Richard Whately Download Open image “The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.” — Richard Whately ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Increase Mere Relief Want
When more and more people want something, it becomes easier to achieve that goal. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind... — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors… — John B. Anderson Copy Share Image
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit. — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
Only one thing has always helped to increase my strength increased further: I'm not alone — Mak_786 Copy Share Image