Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About as

Happiness is gained by complying with the duties of whatever condition of life one is in, and you must constrain yourself to rise to that exalted station in which destiny has placed you.

Happiness Duties Life Destiny
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read

You Anything Worthy Write
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Hope Deceitful Reason Need
  Favorite Make wallpaper
There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.
Thing Destiny Shape Lives
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Loved Truth Minds Ignorant
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Beauty Charms Mind Desires
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Sweetest Pleasures Hardest Won
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain

We Authors Woes Griefs
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

Man Love Despair Joy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.

Man Believe Power Destiny
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Love Poet View Silent
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Economy spoils pleasure

Economy Spoils Pleasure
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

Love Reason Cease Manner
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned

Educate Read Travel Learned
  Favorite Make wallpaper

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Love Sad Disease Affection
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Philosopher Person Pleasures Sorrow
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Love Pleasure Immortal Fantasy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Man Power Nature Wise
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Friends Fortune Power Gratitude
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Man Free Actions Passion
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent

Food Constitution Health Excellent
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess
Happy Life Treasure Possess
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

Forgets Forgive Heart Mind
  Favorite Make wallpaper

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer

God Admit Possibility Suffer
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

Rebellion City Wise Government
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

Enjoy Present Future Laugh
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

People Reason Conscience Free
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It's clear to me that if we raise children with no moral compass, we are planting the seeds of our own destruction.

Clear Children Moral Destruction
  Favorite Make wallpaper

...no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side.

No one Passed Journey Wishes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

Anger Truth Forgive Love
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

History Human Nature Ignorance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Whatever the reason, too many are no longer willing to call evil by its name. There is no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish.

Reason Evil Vision People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We have only one life. We may waste it, or we may use it to learn of God and what God wants for us. And we all make mistakes. Only one life

Life Learn God Mistakes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

...the last official act of any government is to loot their own treasury.

Official Government Loot Treasury
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In my view, the right to bear arms is in the Constitution for three main reasons: self-protection, community protection, and protection from tyrrany.

View Right Bear arms Constitution
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am a man, and I will be treated as such. I answer to only one king and His kingdom will come, His will be done. We have chosen sides and we choose God. America as a nation must do the same, as well.

Man King Kingdom God
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think that all good gifts come ultimately from God. It wouldn’t do for the messenger to take credit for his master’s work.

Good gifts God Credit Master's work
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

Freedom Stupid Fail Succeed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

Damage Science Philosophers Divine
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Proof Mind Truth People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

Country Name Voice Peoples
  Favorite Make wallpaper

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

Ready Humanity Life Country
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

Idea Grow Blood Martyrs
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

Honor Country Faults Qualities
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Good council has no price.

Good Council Price
  Favorite Make wallpaper

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

God Country Humanity Mother
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Poetry Thoughts Inspires Power
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.

Believe Religion Life Relationships
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

Pratices Compassion Road Happiness
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of our day because that has a neurological correlate.

Need Thinking Day Correlate
  Favorite Make wallpaper