Quotes 24941 till 24960 of 25360.
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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
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A game is a closed field, a ring of death with sex at the centre, and performing is the only game I've got.
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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles... it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
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A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.
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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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