Quotes 61 till 80 of 2457.
-
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
-
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
-
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
-
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
-
I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.
-
I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.
Source: The Telegraph, 7 november 2014 -
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Source: Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008 -
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
-
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
-
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
-
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
-
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
-
Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
-
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
-
It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
-
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
-
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
-
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
-
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
-
Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
All make-shift famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 4)
