Quotes 261 till 280 of 1159.
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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
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Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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Good managers have a bias for action.
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Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
Leviathan (1651) XIII -
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
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