Quotes 161 till 180 of 4622.
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In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.
september 1982 -
It’s sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.
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