Quotes 201 till 220 of 6005.
-
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
-
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
-
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
-
Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?
-
li is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
-
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
-
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
-
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
-
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
-
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
-
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
-
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
-
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
-
My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
-
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
-
No one does anything from a single motive.
-
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
-
No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
All one-hundred famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 11)
