Quotes 461 till 480 of 1131.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.
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It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.''
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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
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It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
Letter to John Thaxter, 15 February 1778 -
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
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It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
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It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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