Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1730.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
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Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Reflection makes men cowards.
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Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
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Remembrance of things past.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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Report me and my cause aright.
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Reputation, reputation, reputation! O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial.
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Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
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Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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