Quotes 241 till 260 of 1240.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
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But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
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But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
In Defense of Women (1918) -
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
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