Quotes with unfit

  • People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

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  • Lord Acton The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Salvador Dali Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Seneca He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Washington Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Johnson Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Wycherley Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Adam Smith To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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