Quotes 3941 till 3960 of 10005.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.
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It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
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It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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It is as idle to range against man's fatuity as to hope that he will ever be less a fool.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
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It is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one's forces this way and that.
On War (1832) -
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''
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