Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 4570.
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It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
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It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
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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 better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
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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 certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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