Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 28471.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
On War (1832) -
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
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A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
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