Quotes 201 till 220 of 10185.
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
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But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
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But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
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But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
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But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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By Wisdom wealth is won; But riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
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