Quotes 61 till 80 of 120.
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
On War (1832) -
The end of birth is death; the end of death Is birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou, Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befalls Which could not otherwise befall?
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The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
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