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english-philosopher money reckon wise words
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools. Thomas Hobbes
english-philosopher freedom lives man reserved wants work
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. Robin G. Collingwood
english-philosopher question
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer? Jeremy Bentham
english-philosopher measure results
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
english-philosopher foundation happiness number
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
english-philosopher good number people
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
english-philosopher remedies
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. Francis Bacon
english-philosopher men wisdom
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
english-philosopher nature state
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
money pain believe
I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money. Agnes Smedley
money luxury imagination
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. Charlie Chaplin
money world absolutes
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. Charles Dudley Warner
money war military
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War) Charles de Gaulle
money giving grace
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. Charles Caleb Colton
money evil gains
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
money greatest-wealth want
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
money reality
The reality is, this is where the money is at. Maribel Lopez
money
There is definitely an addiction to money that I have. Conor McGregor
reckoning wrong
We had a very fundamental reckoning about what we've done wrong -- and, more importantly, about what we have done right and will do right in the future,
reckoned speed top
When I was with Steve, we reckoned we could get up to top speed in about a month. Matthew Pinsent
reckoned
He is someone to be reckoned with now for 2009.
reckoned
It established her as someone to be reckoned with.
reckoning our-lives
There is a time of reckoning in all our lives. Lorna Luft
reckon time
I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time. Joel Edgerton
wise wisdom juan
Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet. Carlos Castaneda
wise dark garden
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid. C. S. Lewis
wise fate brave
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. Agnes Repplier
wise cavemen scratches
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. Alan Kay
wise son night
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid. Charlotte Bronte
wise thinking likes-and-dislikes
Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none
wise strong humble
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.
wise wisdom thinking
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. Charles de Lint
wise laughter people
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset Charles Dickens
words-of-wisdom desire use
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?
words-of-wisdom cheerful poor
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
words-of-wisdom records trials
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Trifles make the sum of life.
words-of-wisdom said being-true
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
words-of-wisdom speech earnest
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
words-of-wisdom crowds noise
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
words-of-wisdom surprise me-alone
Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
words-of-wisdom littles captains
Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.