Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 10005.
-
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
-
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
-
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
-
Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
-
Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
-
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
-
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
-
Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
-
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
-
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
-
Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.
-
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
-
Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
-
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
-
Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
-
Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
-
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
-
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
-
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Source: Speech Democracy and Education (1896)
All one-man famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 93)
