If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
We always weaken everything we exaggerate.
Fr餩ricC鳡r
To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
La Lehaussee
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Thomas La Mance
To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.
Laber
The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.
Edouard R. Laboulaye
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
Christian Lacroix
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.
Lady Kasluck
The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other
Diogenes Laertius
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human.
Suzanne Lafollette
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.
Karl Lagerfeld
Time is the devourer of all things.
Ovid
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honore de Balzac
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Ralph Gerard
No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.
Michael E. Gerber
I cry every chance I get.
Richard Gere
I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.
David R. Gergen
One person's constant is another person's variable.
Susan Gerhart
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
Katherine F. Gerould
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another.
Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.
Lucy Stone
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
Tom Stoppard
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