Quotes with holier-than-thou

Quotes 801 till 820 of 4321.

  • Allan Sloan Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
    - +
     0
  • Robert A. Heinlein Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Marley Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
    - +
     0
  • Antonin Artaud Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
    - +
     0
  • Ronald Reagan Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
    - +
     0
  • William Shakespeare Doubt thou, the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
     0
  • Marquis de Sade Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
    - +
     0
  • George Herbert Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
    - +
     0
  • Robert E. Lee Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
    - +
     0
  • Aldous Huxley Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • George Orwell Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Alfred N. Whitehead Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
    - +
     0
  • Charles Horton Cooley Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
    - +
     0
  • Adrienne Clarkson Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
    Adrienne Clarkson
    Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman (1939 - )
    - +
     0
  • Campbell Brown Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
    - +
     0
  • Sir John Lubbock Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
    - +
     0
  • Bobbi Brown Eating right and exercising is more important than what you put on your face.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
    - +
     0
  • Hannah Arendt Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
    - +
     0
  • Bryant H. McGill Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
All holier-than-thou famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 41)